Abstract: large fraction of the kinetic energy in the ocean is stored in the ?quasigeostrophic? eddy field. This ?balanced? eddy field is expected, according to geostrophic turbulence theory, to transfer energy to larger scales. In ...

Abstract: he effects of internal waves (IWs), externally forced by high-frequency wind, on energy pathways are studied in submesoscale-resolving numerical simulations of an idealized wind-driven channel flow. Two processes are ...

Abstract: AbstractFour numerical simulations are used to characterize the impact of submesoscale circulations on surface Lagrangian statistics in the northern Gulf of Mexico over 2 months, February and August, representative of ...

Abstract: AbstractAn idealized framework of steady barotropic flow past an isolated seamount in a background of constant stratification (with frequency N) and rotation (with Coriolis parameter f) is used to examine the formation, ...

Abstract: There are limitations in approximating Eulerian statistics from surface drifters, due to biases from surface convergences. By contrasting second- and third-order Eulerian and surface drifter structure functions obtained ...

Abstract: AbstractThis paper, the second of three, investigates submesoscale dynamics in the northern Gulf of Mexico under the influence of the Mississippi?Atchafalaya River system, using numerical simulations at 500-m horizontal ...