Destruction of Potential Vorticity by Winds

By L. Thomas. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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Friction, Frontogenesis, and the Stratification of the Surface Mixed Layer (2008, methodology): “Thomas (2007a) shows that the low PV anomalies generated through convection are e ventually subducted into the ocean interior as intra-thermocline eddies, while the high PV ano malies remain at the surface.”
Mixed Layer Instabilities and Restratification (2007, methodology): “Observations of submesoscale eddies with scales larger than a few kilometers and yet much smaller than the mesoscale eddy field are ubiquitous in the upper ocean (Pollard and Regier 1992; Munk et al. 2000; Thomas 2005).”
Submesoscale Processes and Dynamics (2013, background): “where q is the full Ertel PV, the overline denotes a lateral average, and primes denote a deviation from that average [Thomas, 2005].”
Buoyancy and Wind-Driven Convection at Mixed Layer Density Fronts (2010, methodology): “A PV loss could also result if a frictional force F is applied with a component in the direction of the thermal wind UG (Thomas 2005).”
Mesoscale to Submesoscale Transition in the California Current System. Part II: Frontal Processes (2008, background): “transport varies inversely with f (cid:6) ) is implicit in F sa part of the secondary circulation (Niiler 1969; Paduan and Niiler 1990; Thomas and Lee 2005; Thomas 2005).”
Submesoscale currents in the ocean (2016, background): “with ẑ · τ s ×∇hb < 0) extracts fqE, and vice versa for an up-front stress [72].”
An analysis of mechanisms for submesoscale vertical motion at ocean fronts (2006, methodology): “Thomas and Lee (2005) show that the semigeostrophic Eliassen-Sawyer operator changes character from elliptic to hyperbolic as the EPV changes sign from positive to negative.”
Rapid changes in mixed layer stratification driven by submesoscale instabilities and winds (2010, methodology): “[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].”
Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities from Gliders (2016, methodology): “…to impact MLD variability and upper-ocean stratiﬁcation, specifically surface buoyancy forcing, frictionally generated surface buoyancy forcing (Thomas 2005), symmetric instability (SI; Taylor and Ferrari 2009; Thomas et al. 2013), and mixed layer baroclinic instability (BCI; Boccaletti et…”
Upper Ocean Turbulence from High-Resolution 3D Simulations (2008, unknown): “However, the importance of the vertical velocity relat d to the surface frontogenesis revealed by these results suggests that, in presence of atmospheric forcings, mechanism s such as those described by Thomas (2005) and Capet et al. (2007b) may substantially affect the upper layer dynamics. A more ”
The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) reference manual: Ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) (2010, background): “, 2009), and theory (Thomas and Lee, 2005; Thomas, 2005; Boccaletti et al., 2007; Thomas et al., 2008; Thomas and Ferrari, 2008) have studied and quantified some effects of the submesoscale that may potentially affect the larger scales resolved by climate models.”
Parameterization of Mixed Layer Eddies. Part I. Theory and Diagnosis (2008, background): “…models use a variety of boundary layer parameterizations to represent the processes that mix away stratification in response to surface forcing (e.g., Kraus and Turner 1967; Price 1981; Price et al. 1986; Large et al. 1994; Thomas 2005), while ML restratification occurs only by surface heating.”