Eddy Subduction and the Vertical Transport Streamfunction
Abstract
Subduction—the transport of fluid across the base of mixed layer—exchanges water masses and tracers between the ocean surface and interior. Eddies can affect subduction in a variety of ways. First, eddies shoal the mixed layer by restratifying water columns through baroclinic instabilities. Second, eddies induce an isopycnic transport that leads to the entrainment of warm waters and subduction of cold waters, which effectively counters the wind-driven overturning circulation. In this study, the authors use an idealized model to examine these two mechanisms by which eddies influence subduction and to discuss how eddy subduction may be better approximated using the concept of vertical transport streamfunction than the conventional meridional transport streamfunction.
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Isothermal averaging at constant z is strongly impacted near side boundaries where the structure of C_iso2y_Res can be difficult to interpret.
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- Authors
- Lee, M.-M., & Nurser, A. J. G.
- Affiliations
- National Oceanography Centre (GB)
- ORCID
- Nurser, A. J. George
- Venue
- Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Publisher
- American Meteorological Society
- Published
- 2012-11-01
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1762-1780
- ISSN
- 0022-3670 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-0485
- OpenAlex
- W2107356505
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Physical Oceanography (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/F020252/1, noc010010)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
- Keywords
- mixed layer, baroclinic instability, entrainment, ocean mixing, tracer transport, idealized ocean model
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