Suppression of Eddy Diffusivity across Jets in the Southern Ocean

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Global Patterns of Mesoscale Eddy Properties and Diffusivities (2014, methodology): “The relationship with the Lagrangian formulation of Ferrari and Nikurashin (2010) is discussed in appendix A.”
The Dependence of Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning on Wind Stress (2011, methodology): “Because our model employs linear bottom drag, the leading-order balance of the system is htsusi ’ r0rbhjubj 2i, (24) 2 Ferrari and Nikurashin (2010) recently refined the idea to include the modulation of Le by the presence of mean flows, and there is indeed mounting evidence that the spatial…”
Jets and Topography: Jet Transitions and the Impact on Transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (2012, background): “…budget in the Southern Ocean (Munk and Palmèn 1951; Johnson and Bryden 1989), and recent studies have emphasized that interactions between eddies and the mean flow determine the structure of the Southern Ocean MOC (Ferrari and Nikurashin 2010; Sallée et al. 2010; Naveira Garabato et al. 2011).”
Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean (2011, methodology): “This observation is reproduced by a quasi‐geostrophic theory of eddy stirring across a broad barotropic jet based on the scaling law derived by Ferrari and Nikurashin (2010).”