Upper Ocean Turbulence from High-Resolution 3D Simulations

By Patrice Klein, B. Hua, G. Lapeyre, Xavier Capet, S. L. Gentil, Hideharu Sasaki. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Three‐dimensional reconstruction of oceanic mesoscale currents from surface information (2008, unknown): “Indeed, very high numerical simulations with a Primitive Equation model of a nonlinear baroclinically unstable flow [Klein et al., 2008] suggest”
Do Altimeter Wavenumber Spectra Agree with the Interior or Surface Quasigeostrophic Theory (2008, methodology): “Such relevance of the SQG theory for the upperoceanic layers has been confirmed and strengthened by high-resolution simulations using primitive equation models (Capet et al. 2008; Klein et al. 2008).”
Physical forcing of nitrogen fixation and diazotroph community structure in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (2009, background): “In addition, submesoscale dynamics associated with ocean eddies including nonlinear Ekman transport, frontogenesis, and ageostrophic circulation all appear capable of diapycnal nutrient exchange within anticyclones [Mahadevan and Tandon, 2006; Capet et al., 2008; Klein et al., 2008; Mahadevan et al.”
Balanced and unbalanced routes to dissipation in an equilibrated Eady flow (2010, background): “Another relevant study without a surface mixed layer (Klein et al. 2008) finds no evidence of a shear-driven frontal cross-frontal direction.”
Statistics of vertical vorticity, divergence, and strain in a developed submesoscale turbulence field (2013, methodology): “Such an asymmetry is indeed found in high-resolution numerical simulations whenever the signature of strong submesoscale turbulence is not overshadowed by the mesoscale features [e.g., Mahadevan and Tandon, 2006; Capet et al., 2008; Klein et al., 2008].”
A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport (2010, result): “Recent results (e.g., Klein et al., 2008) suggest that new modes are excited when density is not uniform at the surface.”
Mesoscale to Submesoscale Transition in the California Current System. Part II: Frontal Processes (2008, result): “In that regard, a comparison between our simulations ICC0 and ICC1 and the solution analyzed by Klein et al. (2008) at a similar grid resolution is instructive.”
Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale (2012, background): “It is only density surfaces that remain smooth [Lapeyre et al., 2006; Klein et al., 2008].”
Mesoscale to submesoscale transition in the California current system. Part III: Energy balance and flux (2008, background): “; Klein et al. 2008).5 Figure 9 (top) shows that the total amount of horizontal dissipation has also approximately converged by x 0.750 km; the small k values of k R dk are nearly the same for simulations ICC1 and ICC0.”
Interpreting Energy and Tracer Spectra of Upper-Ocean Turbulence in the Submesoscale Range (1–200 km) (2013, background): “It would still be plausible to interpret the 2 2 slopes of the kinetic and potential energy spectra as signatures of surface-QG turbulence, as suggested by Klein et al. (2008).”
Internal gravity waves from atmospheric jets and fronts (2014, background): “Such instabilities are however absent from other high-resolution simulations of upper ocean geostrophic turbulence [Klein et al., 2008], calling for further investigation.”
Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks (2009, background): “This paradigm does not apply at the ocean surface, where energy appeared to cascade downscale in surface trapped modes (Klein et al., 2008).”
Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. III: Implementation and impact in global ocean climate simulations (2010, background): “Submesoscale fronts and frontal restratification and instabilities also af- 76 fect biology (Levy et al., 1999; Spall and Richards, 2000; Mahadevan and 77 Archer, 2000; Klein and Lapeyre, 2009).”