Vertical Mixing by Langmuir Circulations

By James C. McWilliams, P. Sullivan. 2000

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography

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Wind Waves in the Coupled Climate System (2012, methodology): “—, and P. P. Sullivan, 2000: Vertical mixing by Langmuir circulations.”
Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers (2007, background): “The present LES results are an impetus to incorporate more fully wave influences in bulk models of the OBL such as the K-profile parameterization (Large et al. 1995; McWilliams & Sullivan 2000; Smyth et al. 2002; McWilliams & Huckle 2006).”
The form and orientation of Langmuir cells for misaligned winds and waves (2012, background): “[65] In prior studies of aligned winds and waves [e.g., McWilliams et al., 1997; McWilliams and Sullivan, 2000], the turbulent Langmuir number, Lat, was given as the ratio of the surface wind stress, u*, to the surface Stokes velocity in the wind direction, us(0).”
Wave Modeling—Missing the Peaks (2009, background): “These are very relevant processes, and they affect the mixed layer (see, e.g., Melville et al. 1998; McWilliams and Sullivan 2000; Qiao et al. 2004; Noh et al. 2004) and the general circulation (Melville 1996; Sullivan et al.”
Characteristics of Langmuir Turbulence in the Ocean Mixed Layer (2009, methodology): “Modifications to the KPP scheme to take account of Langmuir turbulence have been proposed (McWilliams and Sullivan 2000; Smyth et al. 2002) assuming that the velocity scale is ;us0 (Smith 1998).”
The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “Even when windrows may not be apparent or are highly disordered, the vertical velocity magnitude of near-surface turbulence can be enhanced by the presence of Stokes forces, a condition known as Langmuir turbulence (McWilliams et al 1997, McWilliams and Sullivan 2000, D’Asaro et al 2014).”
Large-Eddy Simulation of Langmuir Turbulence in Pure Wind Seas (2006, methodology): “A modification of the vertical velocity scale “W” in the KPP mixed layer parameterization was proposed in McWilliams and Sullivan (2000), based on LES results at La t (cid:5) 0.3 and observational evidence that suggested w rms (cid:9) U S for La t K 1.”
LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF THE OCEAN MIXED LAYER: THE EFFECTS OF WAVE BREAKING AND LANGMUIR CIRCULATION (2004, background): “…incorporate these effects into the ocean mixed layer models; for example, Noh and Kim (1999), D’Alessio et al. (1998), and Burchard (2001) for the effects of wave breaking and Li and Garrett (1997), D’Alessio et al. (1998), and McWilliams and Sullivan (2000) for the effects of Langmuir circulation.”
Surface Wave Effects in the NEMO Ocean Model: Forced and Coupled Experiments (2015, background): “…Institute, Alleg 70, NO-5007 Bergen, Norway ‡European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) by Hasselmann (1970) and has since been investigated for idealized cases by Weber (1983), Jenkins (1987), McWilliams and Restrepo (1999) and McWilliams and Sullivan (2000) among others.”
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves (2010, unknown): “McWilliams & Sullivan (2000) and Smyth et al. (2002) recently attempted to account for both mixed-layer depth changes and nonlocal mixing by Langmuir cells using K-profile parameterization (Large et al. 1994).”
Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing (2008, background): “In recent studies (McWilliams and Sullivan, 2001; Smyth et al., 2002), the velocity scale has been modified further to account for mixing by Langmuir cells.”
Wave–Current Interactions in Finite Depth (2006, background): “surface mixed layer (Langmuir 1938; Craik and Leibovich 1976, hereinafter CL76; Craik 1977; Leibovich 1980; Li et al. 1995; Skyllingstad and Denbo 1995; McWilliams et al. 1997; McWilliams and Sullivan 2000; Phillips 2002).”