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Bauer, Werner; Chandramouli, Pranav; Chapron, Bertrand; Li, Long; Mémin, Etienne. |
An important open question in fluid dynamics concerns the effect of smallscales in structuring a fluid flow. In oceanic or atmospheric flows, this is aptly captured in wave-current interactions through the study of the wellknown Langmuir secondary circulation. Such wave-current interactions are described by the Craik-Leibovich system, in which the action of a wave induced velocity, the Stokes drift, produces a so called “vortex force” that causes streaking in the flow. In this work, we show that these results can be generalized as a generic effect of the spatial inhomogeneity of the statistical properties of the small-scale flow components. As demonstrated, this is well captured through a stochastic representation of the flow. |
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Palavras-chave: Langmuir circulation; Baroclinic models; General circulation models; Stochastic models; Oscillations. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00610/72194/70975.pdf |
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Zippel, Seth F.; Maksym, Ted; Scully, Malcolm; Sutherland, Peter; Dumont, Dany. |
Observations of waves, winds, turbulence, and the geometry and circulation of windrows were made in a shallow bay in the winter of 2018 outside of Rimouski, Québec. Water velocities measured from a forward-looking pulse-coherent ADCP mounted on a small zodiac show spanwise (cross-windrow) convergence, streamwise (downwind) velocity enhancement, and downwelling in the windrows, consistent with the view that windrows are the result of counter-rotating pairs of wind-aligned vortices. The spacing of windrows, measured with acoustic backscatter and with surface imagery, was measured to be approximately twice the water depth, which suggests an aspect ratio of 1. The magnitude and vertical distribution of turbulence measured from the ADCP are consistent with a... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Boundary layer; Langmuir circulation; In situ oceanic observations; Surface observations. |
Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00593/70552/68722.pdf |
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