Spreading of near-inertial energy in a 1/12° model of the North Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Zhai, Xiaoming, Greatbatch, Richard J., Eden, Carsten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: The Chimney; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43795/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GL029895

Near-inertial energy in the ocean is thought to be redistributed by ß-dispersion, whereby near-inertial waves generated at the surface by wind forcing propagate downward and equatorward. In this letter, we examine the spreading of near-inertial energy in a realistic 1/12° model of the North Atlantic...