Mixed Layer Instabilities and Restratification

By Giulio Boccaletti, Raffaele Ferrari, B. Fox‐Kemper. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model Description and Simulation Features (2019, methodology): “Mixed Layer Baroclinic Eddies Restratification of the mixed layer by mixed layer baroclinic instabilities and mixed layer eddies (MLE) are relatively fast restratification processes (faster than interior baroclinic instabilities; Boccaletti et al., 2007). Furthermore, these upper ocean eddies have o”
Balanced and unbalanced routes to dissipation in an equilibrated Eady flow (2010, background): “(2007b); Boccaletti et al. (2007)).”
Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale (2012, background): “The shutdown is particularly rapid and extreme when frontolysis is associated with frontal instabilities [Boccaletti et al., 2007; Capet et al., 2008; Thomas and Ferrari, 2008], sometimes taking just a few hours.”
Parameterization of Eddy Fluxes near Oceanic Boundaries (2008, background): “Submesoscale eddies drive weak horizontal fluxes compared to mesoscale motions but dominate the vertical fluxes of buoyancy and tracers (Boccaletti et al. 2007).”
Parameterization of Mixed Layer Eddies. Part I. Theory and Diagnosis (2008, background): “A typical oceanic stratification and shear allows two types of baroclinic instability (Boccaletti et al. 2007, hereafter BFF): deep mesoscale instabilities spanning the entire depth and shallow submesoscale instabilities trapped in the weakly stratified surface mixed layer (ML).”
Warming of SST in the cool wake of a moving hurricane (2008, background): “The wake is very likely to be unstable to small horizontal-scale, surface trapped, baroclinic instability [ Boccaletti et al., 2007 ].”
Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities from Gliders (2016, methodology): “Insight into submesoscale processes has, to date, largely been achieved through careful numerical simulations (Haine and Marshall 1998; Boccaletti et al. 2007; Thomas et al. 2008; Capet et al. 2008; Taylor and Ferrari 2009, 2010; Mahadevan et al. 2010; Rosso et al. 2014) that directly resolve the…”
Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models (2019, background): “Furthermore, higher vertical modes require finer horizontal resolution, which eventually blends into the submesoscale regime (Boccaletti et al., 2007).”
Submesoscale Processes and Dynamics (2013, background): “Three-dimensional numerical simulations at progressively finer resolutions show that resolving submesoscale processes leads to flattening the kinetic energy spectra slope to -2 [Capet et al., 2007a] and a transfer of energy to larger, as well as smaller scales [Boccaletti et al., 2007].”
Mesoscale to Submesoscale Transition in the California Current System. Part II: Frontal Processes (2008, background): “17) are likely possibilities, as are more balanced baroclinic instabilities associated with boundary layer vertical shear and weak stratification (Haine and Marshall 1998; Boccaletti et al. 2007).”
Rapid changes in mixed layer stratification driven by submesoscale instabilities and winds (2010, background): “[3] Recent work [e.g., Thomas, 2005; Boccaletti et al., 2007] suggests that one‐dimensional budgets that ignore the role of lateral instabilities in the ML are invalid whenever there are horizontal density gradients, as is nearly always the case in the real ocean [Weller et al., 2004].”
Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. III: Implementation and impact in global ocean climate simulations (2010, methodology): “MLEs are somewhat larger in scale than MLIs due to an inverse cascade (Boccaletti et al., 2007), but remain limited to the submesoscale range (Fox-Kemper et al., 2008b). Thus, MLIs and MLEs will not be directly resolved in global-scale simulations for some time. It will be shown here that MLE restra”