Estimates of M2 Tidal Energy Dissipation from TOPEX/Poseidon Altimeter Data

By Gary D. Egbert, Richard D. Ray. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Energetics of Barotropic and Baroclinic Tides in the Monterey Bay Area (2012, background): “Studies have shown that 25-30% of the global barotropic tidal energy is lost in the deep ocean (Munk and Wunsch 1998; Egbert and Ray 2000, 2001).”
Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles (2006, background): “As seen in the sections, the highest dissipation rates are comparable to estimates of average deep-ocean surface tide dissipation based on satellite altimetry (3.3 mW m (2); Egbert and Ray 2001).”
Tidally driven mixing in a numerical model of the ocean general circulation (2003, methodology): “Previously, the global distribution of energy flux into the internal tides has been examined using observations and tidal models (Egbert and Ray, 2000, 2001; Jayne and St. Laurent, 2001; Niwa and Hibiya, 2001).”
Semi‐diurnal and diurnal tidal dissipation from TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry (2003, background): “This is quite different from the much more uniform distribution of dissipation around the globe seen for the semi-diurnal constituents [cf. Egbert and Ray, 2001, their Plate 3].”
Tidal heating in icy satellite oceans (2014, methodology): “(54) below) was originally empirically-based (Taylor, 1920), a value cD of O (0.001) is still commonly used, even in more modern numerical ocean models (Jayne and Laurent, 2001; Egbert and Ray, 2001).”
The Tides They Are A‐Changin': A Comprehensive Review of Past and Future Nonastronomical Changes in Tides, Their Driving Mechanisms, and Future Implications (2020, background): “Their study also excluded tidal conversion, that is, the transfer of energy from the barotropic to the baroclinic tide, which is a crucial dissipation process in the global ocean (e.g., Egbert & Ray, 2001; Green & Nycander, 2013).”
Sensitivity of the Ocean State to the Vertical Distribution of Internal-Tide-Driven Mixing (2013, background): “…the different classes of internal waves, baro-clinic tides are especially important since it has been estimated that their breaking provides half the 2 ter-rawatts (TW) necessary to maintain the thermohaline circulation (e.g., Munk and Wunsch 1998; Egbert and Ray 2001; Jayne and St. Laurent 2001).”
Tidal conversion at a very steep ridge (2003, methodology): “As an illustration, see figure 8 of Merrifield & Holloway (2002), which shows a simulation of Hawaiian tidal conversion: the emitted internal disturbances do not subsequently interact with the flanks of the ridge.”
The accuracy of surface elevations in forward global barotropic and baroclinic tide models (2004, background): “The tidal power input P in can be shown to equal the global integral P in ¼ r 0 g Z Z Z EQ @Z @t dA; (1) (e.g., Egbert and Ray, 2001 and references therein ), where t is time, the gravitational acceleration g ¼ 9:80 m s À2 ; Z EQ is the equilibrium tide, to be discussed later, Z is the surface…”
Numerical modeling of the global semidiurnal tide in the present day and in the last glacial maximum (2004, background): “W approaches the well constrained modern value of approximately 2.45 TW [Egbert and Ray, 2001] as the numerical grid is refined (Figure 2b).”