Submesoscale dynamics in the upper Ocean

DOI10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-031422-095147MaRDI QIDQ6899546zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. R. Taylor, Andrew Frank Thompson

Publication date 14 November 2025

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1146/ANNUREV-FLUID-031422-095147

zbMATH Keywords

density stratificationheterogeneous shear distributioninstabilitylarger-scale balanced dynamicsunbalanced turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-02) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Geophysical flows (76U60) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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