Journal of Physical Oceanography: Recent submissions
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A Three-Dimensional Inertial Model for Coastal Upwelling along Western Boundaries
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)A three-dimensional inertial model that conserves quasigeostrophic potential vorticity is proposed for wind-driven coastal upwelling along western boundaries. The dominant response to upwelling favorable winds is a ... -
Estimates of Near-Inertial Wind Power Input Using Novel In Situ Wind Measurements from Minimet Surface Drifters in the Iceland Basin
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The Minimet is a Lagrangian surface drifter measuring near-surface winds in situ. Ten Minimets were deployed in the Iceland Basin over the course of two field seasons in 2018 and 2019. We compared Minimet wind measurements ... -
Effect of Small-Scale Topography on Eddy Dissipation in the Northern South China Sea
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Mesoscale eddies are ubiquitous dynamical features, accounting for over 90% of the total kinetic energy of the ocean. However, the pathway for eddy energy dissipation has not been fully understood. Here we investigate the ... -
Water Mass Exchanges between the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea from Multiyear Sampling with Autonomous Gliders
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)We present high-resolution sustained, persistent observations of the ocean around Sri Lanka from autonomous gliders collected over several years, a region with complex, variable circulation patterns connecting the Bay of ... -
Decadal and Intra-Annual Variability of the Indian Ocean Freshwater Budget
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The global freshwater cycle is intensifying: wet regions are prone to more rainfall, while dry regions experience more drought. Indian Ocean rim countries are especially vulnerable to these changes, but its oceanic freshwater ... -
A Theory of Standing Meanders of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Their Response to Wind
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Standing meanders of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and associated eddy hotspots play an important role for the meridional heat flux and downward momentum transfer in the Southern Ocean. Previous modeling studies ... -
Shear Turbulence in the High-Wind Southern Ocean Using Direct Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The ocean surface boundary layer is a gateway of energy transfer into the ocean. Wind-driven shear and meteorologically forced convection inject turbulent kinetic energy into the surface boundary layer, mixing the upper ... -
Mixing in a Salinity Variance Budget of the Salish Sea is Controlled by River Flow
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)A salinity variance framework is used to study mixing in the Salish Sea, a large fjordal estuary. Output from a realistic numerical model is used to create salinity variance budgets for individual basins within the Salish ... -
Seasonal Variability of the Pacific South Equatorial Current during the Argo Era
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The tropical Pacific currents from January 2004 to December 2018 are computed based on the gridded Argo temperatures and salinities using the P-vector method on an -
Vorticity in the Wake of Palau from Lagrangian Surface Drifters
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Wake eddies are important to physical oceanographers because they tend to dominate current variability in the lee of islands. However, their generation and evolution has been difficult to study due to their intermittency. ... -
A New Method for Thermocline and Halocline Depth Determination at Shallow Seas
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)This paper introduces a new method for finding the top of thermocline (TTD) and halocline (THD) depths that may become a powerful tool for applications in shallow marine basins around the world. The method calculates the ... -
The Generation of Linear and Nonlinear Internal Waves Forced by Subinertial Tides over the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The propagation of internal waves (IWs) of tidal frequency is inhibited poleward of the critical latitude, where the tidal frequency is equal to the Coriolis frequency ( -
Bubble-Turbulence Dynamics and Dissipation Beneath Laboratory Breaking Waves
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Bubbles directly link sea surface structure to the dissipation rate of turbulence in the ocean surface layer through wave breaking, and they are an important vehicle for air–sea transfer of heat and gases and important for ... -
What Controls the Partition between the Cold and Warm Routes in the Meridional Overturning Circulation?
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The origins of the upper limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the partition among different routes has been quantified with models at eddy-permitting and one eddy-resolving model or with low-resolution ... -
Ocean Surface Roughness from Satellite Observations and Spectrum Modeling of Wind Waves
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Many wind wave spectrum models provide excellent wave height prediction given the input of wind speed and wave age. Their quantification of the surface roughness, on the other hand, varies considerably. The ocean surface ... -
Uncertainties in Altimetry Observations of Eddy Changes Induced by Tropical Cyclones
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The effects of tropical cyclones (TCs) on preexisting eddies are generally quantified by comparing post-TC and pre-TC altimetry-based eddy amplitudes and radii. The dynamical and technical uncertainties in this quantification ... -
The Response of a Baroclinic Anticyclonic Eddy to Relative Wind Stress Forcing
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Including the ocean surface current in the calculation of wind stress is known to damp mesoscale eddies through a negative wind power input and have potential ramifications for eddy longevity. Here, we study the spindown ... -
Salinity Mixing and Diahaline Exchange Flow in a Large Multi-Outlet Estuary with Islands
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)The relationship between the salinity mixing, the diffusive salt transport, and the diahaline exchange flow is examined using salinity coordinates. The diahaline inflow and outflow volume transports are defined in this ... -
Observation of Abyssal Circulation to the West of the Luzon Strait, South China Sea
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)South China Sea (SCS) abyssal circulation largely contributes to water renewal, energy budget, and sedimentary processes in the deep ocean. The three-dimensional abyssal circulation west of the Luzon Strait (LS) in the ... -
Seasonality and Spatial Dependence of Mesoscale and Submesoscale Ocean Currents from Along-Track Satellite Altimetry
(American Meteorological Society, 2022)Along-track wavenumber spectral densities of sea surface height (SSH) are estimated from