The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

MH Alford, T Peacock, JA MacKinnon, JD Nash… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Internal gravity waves, the subsurface analogue of the familiar surface gravity waves that
break on beaches, are ubiquitous in the ocean. Because of their strong vertical and …

Climate process team on internal wave–driven ocean mixing

JA MacKinnon, Z Zhao, CB Whalen… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Diapycnal mixing plays a primary role in the thermodynamic balance of the ocean and,
consequently, in oceanic heat and carbon uptake and storage. Though observed mixing …

From topographic internal gravity waves to turbulence

S Sarkar, A Scotti - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Internal gravity waves are a key process linking the large-scale mechanical forcing of the
oceans to small-scale turbulence and mixing. In this review, we focus on internal waves …

Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides

C Vic, AC Naveira Garabato, JAM Green… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing in the ocean is key to regulate the transport of heat, freshwater and
biogeochemical tracers, with strong implications for Earth's climate. In the deep ocean, tides …

Long‐range propagation and associated variability of internal tides in the S outh C hina S ea

Z Xu, K Liu, B Yin, Z Zhao, Y Wang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The variability of internal tides during their generation and long‐range propagation in the
South China Sea (SCS) is investigated by driving a high‐resolution numerical model. The …

Biases in Thorpe-scale estimates of turbulence dissipation. Part I: Assessments from large-scale overturns in oceanographic data

BD Mater, SK Venayagamoorthy… - Journal of Physical …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic density overturns are commonly used to parameterize the dissipation rate of
turbulent kinetic energy. This method assumes a linear scaling between the Thorpe length …

Semidiurnal internal tide incoherence in the equatorial p acific

MC Buijsman, BK Arbic, JG Richman… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The jets in the equatorial Pacific Ocean of a realistically forced global circulation model with
a horizontal resolution of cause a strong loss of phase coherence in semidiurnal internal …

Tidal mixing in the South China Sea: An estimate based on the internal tide energetics

X Wang, S Peng, Z Liu, RX Huang… - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
By taking into account the contributions of both locally and remotely generated internal tides,
the tidal mixing in the Luzon Strait (LS) and the South China Sea (SCS) is investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Internal waves on the upstream side of a large sill of the Mascarene Ridge: A comprehensive view of their generation mechanisms and evolution

JCB Da Silva, MC Buijsman, JM Magalhaes - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we aim to clarify the generation of Internal Solitary Waves (ISWs) at work to the
east of the Mascarene Plateau (Indian Ocean) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) …