Significant dissipation of tidal energy in the deep ocean inferred from satellite altimeter data

By Gary D. Egbert, Richard D. Ray. Nature, 2000

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Semi‐diurnal and diurnal tidal dissipation from TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry (2003, background): “[2] Egbert and Ray [2001; see also Egbert and Ray, 2000] presented empirical maps of tidal dissipation in the global ocean based on TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) altimeter data, demonstrating that a significant fraction (25–35”
The Role of Internal Tides in Mixing the Deep Ocean (2002, neutral): “, McComas and Müller 1981a,b; Henyey et al. 1986; Hirst 1991, 1996), and a review of this subject was given by Müller et al. (1986). Olbers and Pomphrey (1981) and Hirst (1996) specifically examined the wave–wave interactions between the internal tide and the internal wave continuum and estimated th”
Tidal heating in icy satellite oceans (2014, methodology): “In adopting a simple model for the ocean behavior by analogy to Earth’s oceans, we have neglected a significant dissipation mechanism, internal tides, which arise because of compositional stratification (Munk and MacDonald, 1960; Egbert and Ray, 2000).”
Generation of internal waves in the deep ocean by tides (2005, background): “These values are in good agreement with the results obtained by Egbert and Ray [2000] using inverse methods.”
Tidal locking of habitable exoplanets (2017, background): “Satellite data reveal that about two-thirds of Earth’s dissipation occurs in straits and shallow seas and about one-third in the open ocean (Egbert and Ray 2000).”
FES99: A Global Tide Finite Element Solution Assimilating Tide Gauge and Altimetric Information (2002, background): “Both issues are discussed in Schrama and Ray (1994), where it is explained that the main semidiurnal waves such as M2 and S2, respectively, fold to periods of 62.”
The Impact of Abyssal Mixing Parameterizations in an Ocean General Circulation Model (2009, methodology): “…Ledwell et al. 2000) and inverse models of the tides that suggested enhanced energy loss from the barotropic tides over rough topography (Egbert and Ray 2000), Jayne and St. Laurent (2001) applied a parameterization for topographic drag in a model of the barotropic tides and found that it improved…”
Energetics of M2 Barotropic-to-Baroclinic Tidal Conversion at the Hawaiian Islands (2008, background): “Assimilation of satellite observations has shown that a significant fraction ( 1/3) of barotropic (surface) tidal energy is lost in the open ocean (Egbert and Ray 2000, 2001) rather than to bottom friction in shallow marginal seas.”
Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere: Euler–Lagrange equations for a numerical weather prediction model (2002, background): “4) uses approximately 4× 104 real valued representers, including many in shallower seas (Egbert and Ray, 2000).”
Modeling climate diversity, tidal dynamics and the fate of volatiles on TRAPPIST-1 planets (2017, background): “On Earth, the dissipation is dominated by the dynamical response of the ocean and friction processes along the costline and to a lesser extent to interactions with seafloor topography in deep ocean (Egbert & Ray 2000, 2003; Williams et al. 2014).”