Abstract: n the proximity of mixing hotspots in the deep ocean, the observed internal wave spectra are usually distorted from the Garrett?Munk (GM) spectrum and are characterized by the high energy level E as well as a shear?strain ...

Abstract: AbstractThe Kuroshio south of Japan shows bimodal path fluctuations between the large meander (LM) path and the nonlarge meander (NLM) path. The transition from the NLM path to the LM path is triggered by a small meander ...

Abstract: mong the existing finescale parameterizations of turbulent dissipation rates, the Gregg?Henyey?Polzin (GHP) parameterization is thought to produce the most accurate estimates of turbulent dissipation rates since it takes ...

Abstract: A stratified fluid response to barotropic oscillatory now over a large-amplitude obstacle is examined on the basis of the results of laboratory and numerical experiments. It is demonstrated that, when the obstacle height ...

Abstract: AbstractRecent progress in direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of stratified turbulent flows has led to increasing attention to the validity of the constancy of the dissipation flux coefficient Γ in the Osborn?s eddy ...

Abstract: sing an inflow?outflow numerical model, the authors demonstrate that the existence of Koshu Seamount, located about 200 km to the south of Cape Shiono-misaki, is essential in creating the large meander (LM) of the Kuroshio. ...

Abstract: Tidal processes that control basin?ocean water exchange across a sill, namely, the fortnightly modulation of mixing intensity associated with the spring-neap tidal cycle, are examined. The study proceeds analytically by ...

Abstract: Bispectral analysis of the numerically reproduced spectral responses of the two-dimensional oceanic internal wave field to the incidence of the low-mode semidiurnal internal tide is performed. At latitudes just equatorward ...

Abstract: To assess accurately the effect of tidal mixing in the Kuril Straits on the formation of the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW), the spatial distribution of diapycnal diffusivity recently obtained by the present authors ...

Abstract: The authors examine the effect of fortnightly modulated tidal mixing over a sill on a bidirectional estuarine shear flow through it. The study proceeds numerically by using two sets of vertically two-dimensional nonhydrostatic ...