Intensification of ocean fronts by down-front winds

By L. Thomas, Craig M. Lee. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Parameterization of mixed layer eddies. Part II: Prognosis and, impact (2008, background): “A second restratification process recently studied is wind-driven restratification (Thomas and Lee 2005).”
Destruction of Potential Vorticity by Winds (2005, methodology): “These solutions are consistent with the analytical and numerical results of Thomas and Lee (2005) that showed how Ekman pumping/suction resulting from the cross-front contrast in vertical vorticity of the frontal jet and mixing of buoyancy by Ekman-driven convection localized to the front drive…”
An analysis of mechanisms for submesoscale vertical motion at ocean fronts (2006, methodology): “(v) Thomas and Lee (2005) suggest that along-front winds can generate intense down-welling due to cross-front Ekman transport at the surface.”
On the importance of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones for the mean state and dominant variability in the tropospheric circulation (2008, background): “Thomas and Lee [2005] indicated that strong cold advection by the cross-frontal Ekman flow and resultant convection lead to secondary circulation to maintain the front.”
Buoyancy and Wind-Driven Convection at Mixed Layer Density Fronts (2010, background): “Thomas and Lee (2005) showed Unauthenticated | Downloaded 07/11/22 09:22 AM UTC that the destabilization of the front by Ekman flow results in an effective wind-driven buoyancy flux given by B wind 5 ð0 H huiM2 dz 5 twy M 2 r 0 f , (16) which is valid if the Ekman transport is fully contained…”
The role of mixed-layer instabilities in submesoscale turbulence (2015, background): “In the presence of geostrophic shear, convective motions forced by the atmosphere are the result of symmetric rather than gravitational instabilities and are slantwise rather than upright (e.g. Emanuel 1994; Haine & Marshall 1998; Thomas & Lee 2005).”
On the equilibration of a symmetrically unstable front via a secondary shear instability (2009, background): “Recently, regions with negative PV have been observed at strong fronts in the surface mixed layer (Thomas & Lee 2005).”
Submesoscale Processes and Dynamics (2013, background): “The interplay of the two secondary circulations, vorticity, and lateral buoyancy gradient can result in frontal intensification and the formation of multiple fronts of submesoscale separation at a baroclinic zone forced by down-front winds [Thomas and Lee, 2005].”
Warming of SST in the cool wake of a moving hurricane (2008, background): “5.3.2.3. Nonlocal Ekman Layer Dynamics [65] The Ekman layer transport within a horizontally varying surface layer is likely to induce vertical mixing in regions where the surface wind-driven flow has a component along the SST gradient, and, like the baroclinic instability noted above, may act to res”
A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer (2012, unknown): “Secondly, the interaction of winds with submesoscale eddies and fronts, which are also un-resolved in global ocean models, can generate both mixing and restratification in the OSBL [e.g., Thomas and Lee , 2005; Fox-Kemper et al. , 2008].”
Mesoscale to Submesoscale Transition in the California Current System. Part II: Frontal Processes (2008, background): “a. Wind-induced frontogenesis In section 2b the frontogenetic influence of the windinduced, nonlinear Ekman current (i.e., whose trans- port varies inversely with f z) is implicit in Fsa as part of the secondary circulation (Niiler 1969; Paduan and Niiler 1990; Thomas and Lee 2005; Thomas 2005).”