13: Submesoscale Routes to Lateral Mixing in the Ocean
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Our work is testing hypothesis 3 of the white paper “Scalable Lateral Mixing and Coherent Turbulence”: Non-QG, submesoscale instabilities feed a forward cascade of energy, scalar and Ertel PV variance, which enhances both isopycnal and diapycnal mixing. Related hypotheses are that submesoscale variability is associated with coherent structures and anisotropic mixing. Further, submesoscale processes are inherently vertical, as well as horizontal, and that submesoscale processes facilitate cross-front exchange.
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Submesoscale Routes to Lateral Mixing in the Ocean
Our work will test hypothesis 3 of the white paper “Scalable Lateral Mixing and Coherent Turbulence”: Non-QG, submesoscale instabilities feed a forward cascade of energy, scalar and Ertel PV variance, which enhances both isopycnal and diapycnal mixing. Related hypotheses are that submesoscale variability is associated with coherent structures and anisotropic mixing. Further, submesoscale proces...
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