Mesoscale to Submesoscale Transition in the California Current System. Part II: Frontal Processes

By Xavier Capet, James C. McWilliams, M. Molemaker, Alexander F. Shchepetkin. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Oceanography

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Submesoscale Instability and Generation of Mesoscale Anticyclones near a Separation of the California Undercurrent (2015, background): “1 2015 American Meteorological Society 613 variance into the submesoscale range,1 clearly evident in satellite images of surface temperature and color (Castelao et al. 2006; Capet et al. 2008b).”
Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. Part II: Prognosis and, impact (2008, result): “The restratification by frontogenesis (Oschlies 2002; Lapeyre et al. 2006; Capet et al. 2008) may be of similar magnitude to MLE restratification.”
Balanced and unbalanced routes to dissipation in an equilibrated Eady flow (2010, methodology): “Recently, other studies on submesoscale instabilities find that these instabilities arise because of the release of potential energy rather than the horizontal Reynolds stress (i.e. a baroclinic instability; Boccaletti, Ferrari & Fox-Kemper 2007; Capet et al. 2008b).”
Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities from Gliders (2016, background): “…has, to date, largely been achieved through careful numerical simulations (Haine and Marshall 1998; Boccaletti et al. 2007; Thomas et al. 2008; Capet et al. 2008; Taylor and Ferrari 2009, 2010; Mahadevan et al. 2010; Rosso et al. 2014) that directly resolve the evolution of submesoscale…”
Mesoscale to submesoscale transition in the California current system. Part III: Energy balance and flux (2008, background): “In SQG surface KE does not have an inertial range (Capet et al. 2008c) but it, nevertheless, does have a k 5/3 spectral shape.”
Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks (2009, background): “These surface modes tend to extract energy from the interior modes and transfer energy to small horizontal scales where they become unstable to three dimensional instabilities and dissipate their energy (Capet et al., 2008a,b; Klein et al., 2008).”
The role of mixed-layer instabilities in submesoscale turbulence (2015, background): “…vertical fluxes of both physical and biogeochemical tracers that † Email address for correspondence: joernc@mit.edu have been argued to regulate the oceanic heat and carbon uptake in global warming scenarios (Capet et al. 2008b; Klein & Lapeyre 2009; Ferrari 2011; Lévy et al. 2012; Mahadevan 2014).”
Cold filamentary intensification and oceanic surface convergence lines (2009, background): “Vertical buoyancy flux wb0 > 0 due to upward motion on the light side and downward motion on the heavy side, implying density restratification and generation of kinetic energy, as well as a cascade of available potential energy toward smaller scales by frontogenesis [Capet et al., 2008].”
Correction and commentary for "Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the regional ocean modeling system" by Haidvogel et al., J. Comp. Phys 227, pp 3595-3624 (2009, background): “(2008) [20], which is the first in series of highresolution (∆x < 1 km) studies dedicated to transition toward submesoscale dynamics – all of which were available before publication of H2008.”
Rapid changes in mixed layer stratification driven by submesoscale instabilities and winds (2010, background): “day) and with smaller length scales (order of a kilometer) than baroclinic instabilities in the pycnocline [ Capet et al., 2008a, 2008b ].”
Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models (2019, background): “Many studies of submesoscale dynamics have taken this approach (e.g., Capet et al., 2008; Gula et al., 2016), recently focusing on air-sea coupling on small scales (Seo et al., 2009; Small et al., 2015; Renault et al., 2016b).”
Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts (2014, background): “Recent high-resolution numerical simulations, both idealized [Molemaker et al., 2010] and realistic [Capet et al., 2008a, 2008b], have rather emphasized the appearance, at short scales, of frontal instabilities.”