VERTICAL MIXING, ENERGY, AND THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS

By Carl Wunsch, Raffaele Ferrari. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Atmospheric bridge, oceanic tunnel, and global climatic teleconnections (2007, background): “It is recognized that the energy for the small-scale internal mixing is contributed mainly by the surface wind and internal tide [Munk and Wunsch, 1998; Paparella and Young, 2002; Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004; Wang and Huang, 2005], but the detailed process of the energy transfer remains unclear.”
Finescale Parameterizations of Turbulent Dissipation (2014, neutral): “…leading order contributor to the diapycnal closure of the ocean’s overturning circulation and to the maintenance of the abyssal stratification [e.g., Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004], the potential for finescale analyses to drive a step change in our knowledge of important aspects of the ocean mixing…”
The Tides They Are A‐Changin': A Comprehensive Review of Past and Future Nonastronomical Changes in Tides, Their Driving Mechanisms, and Future Implications (2020, background): “In the open‐ocean, tidal dissipation affects the large‐scale circulation and vertical mixing (Green et al., 2009; Munk, 1966; Wunsch & Ferrari, 2004).”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, background): “Upwelling of dense waters, which provide a return path to the surface, is essential in order to sustain the AMOC [Wunsch, 2002; Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004; Kuhlbrodt et al., 2007; Visbeck, 2007].”
Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing (2013, background): “…by baroclinic tides, are crucial for realistic simulation of the thermohaline circulation, transport and storage of heat and carbon dioxide (e.g., Wunsch and Ferrari 2004; Jayne 2009; Friedrich et al. 2011), centennial-to millennial-scale variability, and for estimating how mixing might change…”
Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles (2006, background): “Turbulent mixing modifies water masses, maintains ocean stratification and drives the global conveyor belt’s thermohaline circulation (Munk and Wunsch 1998; Wunsch and Ferrari 2004; Ganachaud and Wunsch 2000).”
The influence of high‐resolution wind stress field on the power input to near‐inertial motions in the ocean (2013, background): “About 2 TW of power input, mainly supplied by winds and tides, are required for mixing to sustain the global general circulation in the ocean [Munk and Wunsch, 1998; Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004].”
Density Stratification, Turbulence, but How Much Mixing? (2008, background): “Wunsch & Ferrari (2004) showed that a crucial unknown in global-scale energy budgets is the efficiency of energy transfer from tidal forcing to small-scale turbulent mixing.”
Mathematical and physical ideas for climate science (2013, background): “issipated through a variety of frictional processes, occurring mostly at the bottom of the ocean, and, similarly, available potential energy is lost through diusion mostly due to small scale eddies (Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004). The theoretical understanding of the oceanic Lorenz’s energy cycle is stil”
Preparing Sustainability-Literate Teachers (2009, background): “One of the outcomes of less or inactive THC seems to be an increase in the number of intense tropical storms and hurricanes (Wunsch & Ferrari, 2004).”