Transport and mixing by persistent and materially coherent ocean structures

• Main Author: Denes, Michael
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UNSW, Sydney 2022
• Subjects: Dynamical Systems; Oceanography; Turbulence; Lagrangian Coherent Structures; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; anzsrc-for: 370803 Physical oceanography; anzsrc-for: 490105 Dynamical systems in applications; Laplace; Southern Ocean; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/100951; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/f0656fb1-2d32-479f-8a97-c84b214a2a6a/download; https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/24658

The ocean is dominated by kinematic features, such as gyres, fronts, and mesoscale eddies, that persist for much longer than typical dynamical timescales. Due to their capacity to transport heat, salt, carbon, and other biogeochemical tracers over long distances, these coherent structures play an im...