Quantifying upper ocean turbulence driven by surface waves

• Main Authors: D'Asaro, EA, Thomson, J, Shcherbina, AY, Harcourt, RR, Cronin, M, Mark Hemer, Fox-Kemper, B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Turbulent flows; Langmuir circulations; mixing; ocean boundary layer; surface waves; turbulence; Langmuir; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Quantifying_upper_ocean_turbulence_driven_by_surface_waves/22956050

Nearly all operational ocean models use air-sea fluxes and the ocean shear and stratification to estimate upper ocean boundary layer mixing rates. This approach implicitly parameterizes surface wave effects in terms of these inputs. Here we test this assumption using parallel experiments in a lake wit...