| Several recent studies reveal the importance of submesoscale. The submesoscale dynamics is strongly ageostrophic, leading to intense vertical velocities and intense vertical buoyancy fluxes. Here, we study the role of (sub)mesoscale structures during deep convection events in the North-Western Mediterranean sea. By using numerical configurations at different spatial resolutions and adapted scale separation methods, the impact of submesoscale features is quantified during the different phases of the intense convection event of winter 2012-2013. |
