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Mesoscale Eddy -- Internal Wave Coupling. III. The End of the Enstrophy Cascade and Maintenance of Gyre Scale Potential Vorticity Gradients
Kurt L. Polzin, Giovanni Dematteis
We assess a prognostic formulation of triple coherence relating to energy exchange between mesoscale eddies and the internal wavefield and compare with observations from the Sargas…
Interacting internal waves explain global patterns of interior ocean mixing
Giovanni Dematteis, Arnaud Le Boyer, Friederike Pollmann +4
Across the stable density stratification of the abyssal ocean, deep dense water is slowly propelled upward by sustained, though irregular, turbulent mixing. The resulting mean upwe…
A One-Dimensional Model for Investigating Scale-separated Approaches to the Interaction of Oceanic Internal Waves
Kurt L Polzin, Yuri V Lvov
High-frequency wave propagation in near-inertial wave shear has been considered fundamental in setting the spectral character of the oceanic internal wave continuum and for transpo…
Generalized Transport Characterizations for Short Oceanic Internal Waves in a Sea of Long Waves
Yuri V Lvov, Kurt L Polzin
Internal waves in the ocean interact in triads. Early work emphasized the importance of extreme-scale separated interactions in which two large wavenumber waves interact with one s…
On the Origins of the Oceanic Ultraviolet Catastrophe
Giovanni Dematteis, Kurt L. Polzin, Yuri V. Lvov
We provide a first-principles analysis of the energy fluxes in the oceanic internal wavefield. The resulting formula is remarkably similar to the renowned phenomenological formula…
Toward Regional Characterizations of the Oceanic Internal Wavefield
Kurt L. Polzin, Yuri V. Lvov
Many major oceanographic internal wave observational programs of the last 4 decades are reanalyzed in order to characterize variability of the deep ocean internal wavefield. The ob…
Resonant and Near-Resonant Internal Wave Interactions
Yuri V. Lvov, Kurt L. Polzin, Naoto Yokoyama
We report evaluations of a resonant kinetic equation that suggest the slow time evolution of the Garrett and Munk spectrum is {\em not}, in fact, slow. Instead nonlinear transfers…
Oceanic Internal Wave Field: Theory of Scale-invariant Spectra
Yuri V. Lvov, Kurt L. Polzin, Esteban G. Tabak +1
Steady scale-invariant solutions of a kinetic equation describing the statistics of oceanic internal gravity waves based on wave turbulence theory are investigated. It is shown in…
Energy spectra of the ocean's internal wave field: theory and observations
Yuri V. Lvov, Kurt L. Polzin, Esteban G. Tabak
The high-frequency limit of the Garrett and Munk spectrum of internal waves in the ocean and the observed deviations from it are shown to form a pattern consistent with the predict…