The scales and equilibration of midocean eddies : Freely evolving flow

By K. Shafer, S. And, Geoffrey K. Vallis. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Reconstructing the Ocean's Interior from Surface Data (2013, background): “Themethod could be further elaborated to integrate additional subsurface information, such as mooring measurements.”
Dynamics of the Upper Oceanic Layers in Terms of Surface Quasigeostrophy Theory (2006, background): “We assume that the horizontal velocity field varies little on the vertical (at least for the first few hundreds of meters) since most of the associated kinetic energy is usually captured by the barotropic and first baroclinic modes (Hua and Haidvogel 1986; Smith and Vallis 2001).”
Do Altimeter Wavenumber Spectra Agree with the Interior or Surface Quasigeostrophic Theory (2008, background): “Smith and Vallis (2001) , using the QG theory, furthermore argue that the ocean surface dynamics is essentially captured by the first baroclinic mode.”
Significant sink of ocean-eddy energy near western boundaries (2010, methodology): “We now use satellite altimetry and climatological hydrographic data to map the divergence of eddy energy in the first baroclinic mod”
Baroclinically Unstable Geostrophic Turbulence in the Limits of Strong and Weak Bottom Ekman Friction: Application to Midocean Eddies (2004, background): “Then Lsurface/Ld changes from 1.4 to 3.3 as throughput increases from 2.5 to 10. Smith and Vallis (2001, 2002) have also pointed out that baroclinic kinetic energy is concentrated near the Ld scale, and is weighted more heavily at the surface when stratification is surface intensified.”
A boundary-value problem for the parameterized mesoscale eddy transport (2010, background): “The diffusivity j is associated with the barotropic eddy stirring discussed by Smith and Vallis (2001), and reviewed in Section 2.2.”
Direct Evidence of an Oceanic Inverse Kinetic Energy Cascade from Satellite Altimetry (2005, methodology): “Thus based upon stratified, geostrophic turbulence theory, described in more detail below (Salmon 1980; Fu and Flierl 1980; Hua and Haidvogel 1986; Smith and Vallis 2001; Vallis 2005), we expect to find a cascade (of the first baroclinic mode) toward the deformation scale in the geostrophic surface ”
Ocean Circulation Kinetic Energy: Reservoirs, Sources, and Sinks (2009, background): “…as the ocean, the baroclinic modes interact inefficiently with the barotropic mode, and thus energy from higher baroclinic modes collects in the first mode and converges toward the first deformation radius before it finally barotropizes (Flierl, 1978; Fu and Flierl, 1980; Smith and Vallis, 2001).”
Upper Ocean Turbulence from High-Resolution 3D Simulations (2008, unknown): “Snyder et al. (1991), using a small Rossby number approximation for the primitive equations, show that this term sets up the asymmetry in both the total pressure and the vor- ticity fields.”