Submesoscale surface fronts and filaments: secondary circulation, buoyancy flux, and frontogenesis

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.294zbMATH Open1374.86020OpenAlexW2700412813MaRDI QIDQ4594062FDOQ4594062

Authors: James C. McWilliams 

Publication date: 17 November 2017

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.294

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zbMATH Keywords

rotating flowsstratified flowsocean processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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• The modification of turbulent thermal wind balance by non-traditional effects
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• A perturbation approach to understanding the effects of turbulence on frontogenesis
• The effects of vertical mixing on nonlinear Kelvin waves
• The evolution of a front in turbulent thermal wind balance. Part 1. Theory
• The role of the surface density field in subtropical gyre circulation
• Surface wave effects on submesoscale fronts and filaments
• The evolution of a front in turbulent thermal wind balance. II: Numerical simulations
• Langmuir turbulence and filament frontogenesis in the oceanic surface boundary layer
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