English
 
Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Conference Paper

Inferred intermittency of ocean mesoscale mixing

Authors

Groeskamp,  Sjoerd
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

de Kreij,  Rick
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

Fried,  Nora
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

de Jong,  Femke
IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations;

External Ressource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in GFZpublic
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Groeskamp, S., de Kreij, R., Fried, N., de Jong, F. (2023): Inferred intermittency of ocean mesoscale mixing, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-4578


Cite as: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5020988
Abstract
Ocean turbulence consists of chaotic and intermittent motions that enhance ocean mixing over length-scales ranging from millimeters to hundred kilometers. Intermittency of small-scale turbulent mixing (millimeters-meters scale) is confirmed by observations. For mesoscale velocity statistics that are fundamental to mesoscale mixing (10-100 km), weak intermittency is also observed.However, for mesoscale turbulent mixing itself, intermittency has been less explored. Here we show observational based indications of extreme intermittency of mesoscale ocean mixing.We apply a well-established mesoscale mixing parameterization to moored observations of temperature, salinity, pressure, and velocity in the Irminger Sea. The resulting four-year time series of weekly-mean mesoscale mixing reveals that a few episodic events are responsible for a large fraction of the mixing at this location, and that the observed intermittency affects both the instantaneous and time-mean heat fluxes. These observations suggest the need to further understand and study intermittency of mesoscale mixing in order to account for these effects in their parameterizations.