NDLI: Turbulence in the Stratified and Rotating World Ocean

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Author	Thorpe, S.A.
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	This is an overview of knowledge, derived mainly from observations, of turbulence in the stratified and rotating World Ocean from the 1960s, when mesoscale motions with scales of 30–150 km and 100 days were discovered by neutrally buoyant floats, to the present decade and the use of SF6“purposeful tracer” release study in the North Atlantic.Most of the ocean is stably stratified, but it contains a rotational turbulent “continua” and isolated rotating eddies, as well as Rossby waves, and many features similar to those of, say, planetary atmospheres. It differs however because (a) the presence of lateral boundaries, the continental land masses, islands, and seamounts, provides constraints to the circulation and to the propagation of eddies, and possibly substantial sources and sinks of eddy motion; (b) channels connecting the oceans to land-locked seas (e.g., the Mediterranean; the formation of water with anomalous properties, “natural tracers”, e.g., temperature or salinity, allows “interthermocline eddies” to be readily detected); and (c) convection and differential seasonal latitudinal forcing introduce upper-ocean variability and intrathermocline eddies. The focus of research interest has moved from “turbulence”per se towards study of its consequences, for example towards dispersion of material particles and dissolved solutes, and the meridional and inter-basin transfers of heat.
Starting Page	171
Ending Page	181
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09354964
Journal	Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Volume Number	11
Issue Number	3-4
e-ISSN	14322250
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	1998-06-01
Publisher Place	Berlin Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes Condensed Matter Physics Computational Mechanics

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