Bi‐Directional Energy Cascades in the Pacific Ocean From Equator to Subarctic Gyre

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Qiu, Bo, Nakano, Toshiya, Chen, Shuiming, Klein, Patrice
• Other Authors: Nanjing University (NJU), Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i Mānoa (UHM), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), ANR-17-EURE-0015,ISBlue,Interdisciplinary Graduate School for the Blue planet(2017)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: bi-directional kinetic energy cascade; kinetic energy forward cascade; kinetic energy inverse cascade; nonlinear interaction; oceanic balanced and unbalanced motions; shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler(ADCP); [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-04160283; https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-04160283/document; https://hal.univ-brest.fr/hal-04160283/file/Geophysical%20Research%20Letters%20-%202022%20-%20Qiu%20-%20Bi%E2%80%90directional%20Energy%20Cascades%20in%20the%20Pacific%20Ocean%20from%20Equator%20to%20Subarctic_accepted.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl097713

 Nonlinear interaction in upper ocean transfers kinetic energy both up-and down-scales  Upper ocean balance and unbalanced motions contribute oppositely to energy cascade  Bi-directional energy cascade depends on relative importance of balanced vs. unbalanced motions and characteristics of the unbalanced motions