Internal wave-driven mixing: Governing processes and consequences for climate

CB Whalen, C De Lavergne… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Turbulent mixing from breaking oceanic internal waves drives a vertical transport of water,
heat and other climatically important tracers in the ocean, thereby playing an important role …

Dedalus: A flexible framework for numerical simulations with spectral methods

KJ Burns, GM Vasil, JS Oishi, D Lecoanet… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Numerical solutions of partial differential equations enable a broad range of scientific
research. The Dedalus project is a flexible, open-source, parallelized computational …

Turbulent wave-balance exchanges in the ocean

J Thomas - Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Oceanic flows are turbulent and multi-scale in nature, and are composed of fast internal
waves and slowly evolving balanced eddies. Contrary to conventional wisdom in physical …

Ocean‐scale interactions from space

P Klein, G Lapeyre, L Siegelman, B Qiu… - Earth and Space …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing
the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This …

Oceanic mesoscale eddy depletion catalyzed by internal waves

R Barkan, K Srinivasan, L Yang… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The processes leading to the depletion of oceanic mesoscale kinetic energy (KE) and the
energization of near‐inertial internal waves are investigated using a suite of realistically …

Stimulated imbalance and the enhancement of eddy kinetic energy dissipation by internal waves

R Barkan, KB Winters… - Journal of Physical …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
The effects of internal waves (IWs), externally forced by high-frequency wind, on energy
pathways are studied in submesoscale-resolving numerical simulations of an idealized wind …

Stimulated generation: Extraction of energy from balanced flow by near-inertial waves

CB Rocha, GL Wagner, WR Young - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
We study stimulated generation–the transfer of energy from balanced flows to existing
internal waves–using an asymptotic model that couples barotropic quasi-geostrophic flow …

Penetration of wind-generated near-inertial waves into a turbulent ocean

O Asselin, WR Young - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
An idealized storm scenario is examined in which a wind-generated inertial wave interacts
with a turbulent baroclinic quasigeostrophic flow. The flow is initialized by spinning up an …

Bottom‐reached near‐inertial waves induced by the tropical cyclones, Conson and Mindulle, in the South China Sea

Y Ma, D Wang, Y Shu, J Chen, Y He… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Moored current observations in the northwestern South China Sea (SCS) captured two
events of near‐inertial waves (NIWs) induced by the tropical cyclones Conson and Mindulle …

Oceanic eddies induce a rapid formation of an internal wave continuum

L Yang, R Barkan, K Srinivasan… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Oceanic internal waves are a major driver for turbulent mixing in the ocean, which controls
the global overturning circulation and the oceanic heat and carbon transport. Internal waves …