Improved global maps and 54‐year history of wind‐work on ocean inertial motions

By M. Alford. 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks (2009, methodology): “Alford (2003), using a slab, calculated a wind power deposit into inertial waves of about 0.5 TW. Deriving the slab model of the flow field from the equations of motion is dependent upon a series of assumptions whose validity is obscure, and thus the true uncertainty of the rates of direct energy…”
Internal waves across the Pacific (2007, background): “However, the inferred rate of near-inertial wave generation by PSI (2.5 10 3 Wm 2) exceeds the mean wind input at this latitude [Alford, 2003b] by a factor of 2–3.”
VERTICAL MIXING, ENERGY, AND THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS (2004, background): “Alford (2003) calculated a wind deposit of energy into this peak at about 0.5 TW. Tidal Input The sun and the moon work on the ocean at rates known with near-astronomical accuracy (Munk & Wunsch 1998).”
Modulation of Wind-Work by Oceanic Current Interaction with the Atmosphere (2016, background): “Two strong pathways of mechanical energy from the surface to the deeper ocean are clear at present: wind forcing of near-inertial oscillations and wind forcing of surface Ekman currents and geostrophic ﬂow (Alford 2003; Watanabe and Hibiya 2002; Scott and Xu 2009).”
On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (2007, background): “The second term is the work on the ageostrophic flow, estimated as about 3 TW, resulting from about 2.4 TW from subinertial periods [Wang and Huang, 2004a] and 0.5–0.7 TW from inertial periods [Watanabe and Hibiya, 2002; Alford, 2003].”
Model-predicted distribution of wind-induced internal wave energy in the world's oceans (2008, unknown): “It was shown that low-mode internal waves dominated both the vertical and horizontal propagation with their energy transferred to small dissipation scales via the nonlinear wavewave interactions [McComas and Bretherton, 1977; Müller et al., 1986; Niwa and Hibiya, 1997], wave-topography interactions ”
The influence of high‐resolution wind stress field on the power input to near‐inertial motions in the ocean (2013, result): “We choose this frequency range to be consistent with the study of Furuichi et al. [2008]. We concentrate on anticyclonically rotating variance, because it is a key feature of near-inertial motions.”
TOWARD REGIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVEFIELD (2010, background): “Map of near-inertial wind input into the mixed layer in units of W/m(2), [Alford, 2003].”