Do we require adiabatic mixing schemes in eddy-resolving ocean models?
11TH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC FLUID DYNAMICS (1997) 46-47
Interactions between the Gulf Stream, the deep Western Boundary Current and topography
11TH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC FLUID DYNAMICS (1997) 204-205
Parameterising the eddy transfer of water masses
11TH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC FLUID DYNAMICS (1997) 48-49
On the thermodynamics of subduction
Journal of Physical Oceanography 25:1 (1995) 138-151
Abstract:
For a parcel of fluid in the mixed layer to pass into the stratified thermocline - to subduct - it must be stratified by buoyancy input; this buoyancy can be supplied by local air-sea exchange and/or by lateral advective processes. A series of experiments is described in which a mixed layer, coupled to an ideal-fluid thermocline, undergoes differing seasonal cycles. The authors conclude that in ocean models that do not explicitly represent a seasonal cycle it is necessary to parameterize the process through a prescription of the winter mixed layer density and depth. The buoyancy forcing diagnosed from such models must be interpreted as the combined contribution of the annual air-sea exchange and lateral advective processes in the summer Ekman layer. -from AuthorsINFLUENCE OF TOPOGRAPHY ON THE LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATION
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 25:7 (1995) 1622-1635