Internal Swell Generation: The Spatial Distribution of Energy Flux from the Wind to Mixed Layer Near-Inertial Motions

By M. Alford. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Jayne
2. Robert Hallberg
3. Sonya Legg
4. T. Hibiya
5. K. Polzin
6. A. Melet
7. Jin-Song von Storch
8. H. Simmons

In Oceanography

1. S. Jayne
2. K. Polzin
3. Sonya Legg
4. Robert Hallberg
5. H. Simmons
6. Louis St. Laurent
7. T. Hibiya
8. A. Melet

Citations in the corpus

• Improved global maps and 54‐year history of wind‐work on ocean inertial motions (2003, unknown): “Mapping each internal-wave source [Egbert and Ray, 2000; Alford, 2001] and subsequent propagation [Alford, 2003] is a first step toward a spatial map of internal-wave dissipation.”
• The Impact of Abyssal Mixing Parameterizations in an Ocean General Circulation Model (2009, methodology): “sills Thurnherr et al. (2005); MacKinnon et al. (2008). Additional mixing comes from the energy input by the wind generating near-inertial waves (Munk and Wunsch 1998; Alford 2001; von Storch et al.”
• Global estimates of the wind‐induced energy flux to inertial motions in the surface mixed layer (2002, methodology): “Actually, ocean general circulation models demonstrate that the strength of the thermohaline circulation is intimately boundupwith thedistributionand intensityofdiapycnalmixing in the deep ocean [Gargett, 1984; Bryan, 1987].Munk and Wunsch [1998] found that the spatially averaged diapycnal diffusivi”
• Tidally driven mixing in a numerical model of the ocean general circulation (2003, background): “Some internal wave energy is derived from the transmission of wind energy through the surface mixed layer (Alford, 2001; Watanabe and Hibiya, 2002).”
• The influence of high‐resolution wind stress field on the power input to near‐inertial motions in the ocean (2013, methodology): “4 TW, while Simmons and Alford [2012] recently found a global wind-generated power input of 0.4 TW using an OGCM with a shear-driven entrainment scheme [Jackson et al., 2008] and a refined bulk mixed layer scheme [Hallberg, 2003]. [4] The wind power input to NI motions, for slab ocean models, is sen”
• Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing (2013, background): “Important sources of energy for internal waves are winds, leading to the generation of near inertial waves (e.g., D’Asaro et al. 1995; Alford 2001, 2003), and the flow of sub-and near-inertial currents and barotropic tides over topography in the stratified ocean, leading to, respectively, the…”