A global perspective on Langmuir turbulence in the ocean surface boundary layer

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Belcher, Stephen E., Grant, Alan A.L.M., Hanley, Kirsty E., Fox-Kemper, Baylor, Van Roekel, Luke, Sullivan, Peter P., Large, William G., Brown, Andy, Hines, Adrian, Calvert, Daley, Rutgersson, Anna, Pettersson, Heidi, Bidlot, Jean-Raymond, Janssen, Peter A.E.M., Polton, Jeff A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU 2012
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Earth Sciences; Southern Ocean; Langmuir
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20151/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20151/4/Belcher_etal_Polton12_GRL.pdf

The turbulent mixing in thin ocean surface boundary layers (OSBL), which occupy the upper 100m or so of the ocean, control the exchange of heat and trace gases between the atmosphere and ocean. Here we show that current parameterizations of this turbulent mixing lead to systematic and substantial er...