Wave Breaking and Ocean Surface Layer Thermal Response

By G. Mellor, Alan Blumberg. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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Model-predicted distribution of wind-induced internal wave energy in the world's oceans (2008, unknown): “The maximum depth of the model is set to 4500 m. [12] The vertical mixing coefficients are derived from the recently modified version of the Mellor-Yamada turbulence model where the effects of surface wave breaking are taken into account [Craig and Banner, 1994; Mellor and Blumberg, 2004].”
Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: from CMIP3 to CMIP5 (2013, background): “Improvements include a double diffusion process (Merryfield et al. 1999), Langmuir cells (Axell 2002) and the contribution of surface wave breaking (Mellor and Blumberg 2004; Burchard and Rennau 2008).”
Surface Wave Effects in the NEMO Ocean Model: Forced and Coupled Experiments (2015, methodology): “It is worth noting that the exponential profile (19) assumed by Mellor and Blumberg (2004) is only valid very near the surface, and in fact CB94 had already found the solution to the more general case where the mixing length is allowed to vary with depth.”
Direct measurements of ocean surface velocity from space: Interpretation and validation (2005, background): “…2004; Rascle et al., manuscript in preparation, 2005] that the surface quasiEulerian current, defined as the drift current minus the wave-induced Stokes drift, should be rather uniform over the vertical owing to strong wave-induced mixing [e.g., McWilliams et al., 1997; Mellor and Blumberg, 2004].”
A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 1: Wave-current turbulence interaction parameters for the open ocean based on traditional parameterizations (2008, methodology): “The main difference with the model of Mellor and Yamada (1982) is that the flux Richardson number is replaced by a turbulent Richardson number, which is more convenient in the ocean surface layer where the production of turbulence by the mean current shear is not the dominant source of TKE (Noh,…”
On the Interaction of Surface Waves and Upper Ocean Turbulence (2006, background): “This value is about a factor of 10 smaller than the production of TKE usually attributed to wave breaking in active wind wave-generation conditions (e.g., Craig and Banner 1994; Mellor and Blumberg 2004).”
The CNRM-CM5.1 global climate model: description and basic evaluation (2013, methodology): “…and Delecluse (1993) TKE scheme plus parameterizations of double diffusion process (Merryfield et al. 1999), Langmuir cell (Axell 2002), Surface wave breaking (Mellor and Blumberg 2004), and using an energetically consistent time and space discretization (Burchard 2002; Marsaleix et al. 2008).”