The Role of Internal Tides in Mixing the Deep Ocean

By Louis St. Laurent, C. Garrett. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography

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Tidal conversion at a very steep ridge (2003, methodology): “(4.11) Equation (4.11) confirms the numerical speculation of St. Laurent et al. (2003) that in the limit h → ∞ the conversion due to a knife-edge ridge is precisely twice that of Bell’s (1975a) witch with the same height, b.”
Energetics of M2 Barotropic-to-Baroclinic Tidal Conversion at the Hawaiian Islands (2008, methodology): “The 74% of baroclinic energy radiated out of the domain is consistent with the analytical work of St. Laurent and Garrett (2002), who found that less than 30% of the energy flux is generated at smaller spatial scales and may be available to dissipate locally.”
Energetics of Barotropic and Baroclinic Tides in the Monterey Bay Area (2012, methodology): “The estimate of St. Laurent et al. is obtained from equation (52) as CStL = 37.02 MW for 1000 vertical modes.”
Global Abyssal Mixing Inferred from Lowered ADCP Shear and CTD Strain Profiles (2006, background): “Turbulent mixing of 100–1000 times the ocean interior values is found over seamounts (Nabatov and Ozmidov 1988; Kunze and Toole 1997; Lueck and Mudge 1997), ridges (Althaus et al. 2003; Klymak et al. 2006), canyons (St. Laurent et al. 2001; Carter and Gregg 2002), and hydraulically controlled passag”
Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing (2008, methodology): “Fortunately, renewed interest in internal waves and its relevance for mixing and the large scale circulation in the ocean (Munk and Wunsch, 1998), has led to a new generation of models that incorporate nonlinear internal waves (e.g. Hibiya et al., 1998; Xing and Davies, 2002; Furue, 2003) and intern”
VERTICAL MIXING, ENERGY, AND THE GENERAL CIRCULATION OF THE OCEANS (2004, methodology): “Garrett & St. Laurent (2002) reviewed recent work on the generation problem.”
Estimating tidally driven mixing in the deep ocean (2002, background): “Laurent and Garrett [2002]. They suggest that enhanced turbulence levels near internal tide”
On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (2007, background): “How much of the tidal energy is locally dissipated near their generation site or radiated away is, however, still unclear [St. Laurent and Garrett, 2002; Garrett and St. Laurent, 2002].”
Direct Breaking of the Internal Tide near Topography: Kaena Ridge, Hawaii (2008, unknown): “Given the tidal origin of the internal waves, we might expect a spring–neap cycle to the turbulence dissipation as found in fjord studies and in the Brazil Basin (St. Laurent et al. 2001).”
Radiation and Dissipation of Internal Waves Generated by Geostrophic Motions Impinging on Small-Scale Topography: Application to the Southern Ocean (2010, background): “Enhanced abyssal mixing has been linked to the radiation of internal tides in other parts of the ocean (Polzin et al. 1997; Ledwell et al. 2000; St. Laurent and Garrett 2002).”
The generation of internal tides at abrupt topography (2003, background): “Previous studies by Larsen (1969) and Robinson (1969) have examinedthe scattering of waves, rather than wave generation, from a knife-edge ridge.”
The Impact of Abyssal Mixing Parameterizations in an Ocean General Circulation Model (2009, background): “The tidal dissipation efﬁciency is given by the parameter q 5 1 = 3 and represents the part of the internal wave energy ﬂux E ( x , y ) that is dissipated locally (St. Laurent and Garrett 2002).”