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| Hua, Bach-lien; Menesguen, Claire; Le Gentil, Sylvie; Schopp, Richard; Marsset, Bruno; Aiki, Hidenori. |
| Evidence of persistent layering, with a vertical stacking of sharp variations in temperature, has been presented recently at the vertical and lateral periphery of energetic oceanic vortices through seismic imaging of the water column. The stacking has vertical scales ranging from a few metres up to 100 m and a lateral spatial coherence of several tens of kilometres comparable with the vortex horizontal size. Inside this layering, in situ data display a [k(h)(-5/3)k(h)(2)] scaling law of horizontal scales for two different quantities, temperature and a proxy for its vertical derivative, but for two different ranges of wavelengths, between 5 and 50 km for temperature and between 500 m and 5 km for its vertical gradient. In this study, we explore the dynamics... |
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Palavras-chave: Geostrophic turbulence; Quasi; Geostrophic flows; Stratified flows. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00159/27070/25322.pdf |
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| Menesguen, Claire; Mcwilliams, J.c.; Molemaker, M. Jeroen. |
| Oceanic large- and meso-scale flows are nearly balanced in forces between Earth’s rotation and density stratification effects (i.e. geostrophic, hydrostatic balance associated with small Rossby and Froude numbers). In this regime advective cross-scale interactions mostly drive energy toward larger scales (i.e. inverse cascade). However, viscous energy dissipation occurs at small scales. So how does the energy reservoir at larger scales leak toward small-scale dissipation to arrive at climate equilibrium? Here we solve the linear instability problem of a balanced flow in a rotating and continuously stratified fluid far away from any boundaries (i.e. an interior jet). The basic flow is unstable not only to geostrophic baroclinic and barotropic instabilities,... |
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Palavras-chave: Baroclinic flows; Critical layers; Stratified flows. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00128/23906/21847.pdf |
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