A regime diagram for classifying turbulent large eddies in the upper ocean

By Ming Li, C. Garrett, E. Skyllingstad. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Characteristics of Langmuir Turbulence in the Ocean Mixed Layer (2009, methodology): “Li et al. (2005) investigated the variation in turbulent statistics, particularly the nondimensional vertical velocity variance sw 2 /u* 2 with Lat.”
A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer (2012, unknown): “diagram is similar to the one defined by Li et al. [2005], but with two important differences. Firstly, here we interpret the axes as the ratio of terms that produce TKE, processes that underpin any parameterization of the OSBL mixing, whereas Li et al. [2005] determine their parameters from the mea”
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves (2010, background): “Li et al. (2005) investigated a wide parameter space spanned by shear, Stokes, and buoyancy forcing and concluded that most often the wind-driven OBL is dominated by Langmuir turbulence with Lat ≈ 0.3 or less.”
Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers (2007, background): “For Ua = 15 m s−1 and the Stokes velocity at z = 1 m, we estimate Lat = 0.3, which is a regime where Stokes forcing is important (see also McWilliams et al. 1997; Li et al. 2005).”
The form and orientation of Langmuir cells for misaligned winds and waves (2012, methodology): “…Smith, 1992; D’Asaro and Dairiki, 1997] and large eddy simulations (LES) of the Craik-Leibovich (CL) equations [Craik, 1977; Skyllingstad and Denbo, 1995; McWilliams et al., 1997; Noh et al., 2004; Sullivan et al., 2004, 2007; Li et al., 2005; Polton and Belcher, 2007; Grant and Belcher, 2009].”
The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “…although breaking waves and the Langmuir cells play a key role in homogenizing currents and density in the ocean mixed boundary layer (Kukulka and Veron 2019), especially when the sea is fully developed (Li et al 2005), they are not routinely taken into account to correct sampling at sea.”
Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing (2008, background): “The relevant non-dimensional quantity that determines the importance of buoyancy fluxes in establishing LC is the Hoenikker number H O ¼ B0=ðk u2s V SOÞ, with the wave number k and the Stokes velocity VSO, see Li and Garrett (1995), Skyllingstad and Denbo (1995) and Li et al. (2005) for details.”