Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles

By Eric Kunze, E. Firing, J. Hummon, T. Chereskin, A. Thurnherr. 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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Citations in the corpus

• Finescale Parameterizations of Turbulent Dissipation (2014, unknown): “…Kunze, 1991; Kunze et al., 1992; Kunze and Sanford, 1996; Mauritzen et al., 2002; Garabato et al., 2004a, 2004b; Sloyan, 2005; Walter et al., 2005; Kunze et al., 2006; Alford et al., 2007; Palmer et al., 2007; MacKinnon et al., 2008; St€ober et al., 2008; Lauderdale et al., 2008; Park et al.,…”
• Radiation and Dissipation of Internal Waves Generated by Geostrophic Motions Impinging on Small-Scale Topography: Application to the Southern Ocean (2010, methodology): “Kunze et al. (2006) estimate lower values, because they make more conservative assumptions about the LADCP noise–signal ratio and low-pass filter shear in regions of weak stratification.”
• The Impact of Abyssal Mixing Parameterizations in an Ocean General Circulation Model (2009, background): “…source from the generation of internal lee waves resulting from the interaction of mesoscale eddies with rough topography (Gille et al. 2000; Naveira Garabato et al. 2004; Kunze et al. 2006; Naveira Garabato et al. 2007) and flows over sills Thurnherr et al. (2005); MacKinnon et al. (2008).”
• Global Ocean Meridional Overturning (2007, background): “Beneath thermocline densities these results are 3–15 times larger than globally averaged estimates based on lowered ADCP (LADCP) and CTD strain observations (Kunze et al. 2006).”
• Radiation and Dissipation of Internal Waves Generated by Geostrophic Motions Impinging on Small-Scale Topography: Theory (2010, methodology): “…and the Scotia Sea are O(10) cm s21 (Naveira Garabato et al. 2002, 2003), whereas barotropic tidal flows based on the Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/Poseidon Cross-Over Global Inverse Solution, version 3 (TPXO.3) model (Egbert et al. 1994) are smaller at O(2) cm s21 (Kunze et al. 2006).”
• Spatial and temporal variability of global ocean mixing inferred from Argo profiles (2012, methodology): “…39, L18612, doi:10.1029/2012GL053196, 2012 L18612 1 of 6 good proxy for diapycnal mixing patterns [Wijesekera et al., 1993; Thompson et al., 2007; Kunze et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2011], although due to the limits of this parameterization ship-based measurements are necessary to determine accurate…”
• Global energy conversion rate from geostrophic flows into internal lee waves in the deep ocean (2011, background): “The total energy flux into internal lee waves is estimated to be 0.2 TW which is 20% of the global wind power input into the ocean.”
• Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling (2012, background): “To do so, strong vertical mixing is required in the thermocline, mixing that is not observe”