Sentences with phrase «eddy mixing»

Lateral eddy mixing of tracers such as potential temperature and salinity is mainly directed along isopycnals, and has a small effect on the dynamics but is important for water mass properties.

It is not diffusive at all; the atmosphere is too large for diffusive mixing or even small eddy mixing to dominate.

Deep ocean heat and carbon storage are dependent on heat transfers driven by mesoscale eddy mixing.

The scientists conducted ocean simulations in an idealized mid-latitude ocean basin to Simulate Mesoscale Ocean Activity (SOMA) and eddy mixing.

Right now, climate models have to approximate many physical processes that turn out to be very important; air flowing over mountain ranges, for example, or small eddies mixing water in the ocean.

Not exact matches

Aluminium closures collected together with the mixed packaging fraction are separated with eddy - current systems and similar systems are used to separate closures when it comes to glass.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

The ocean is full of eddies, swirling motions some tens to hundreds of kilometres across, which mix the water and carry it across the average currents.

Los Alamos researchers created models to quantify the horizontal and vertical structure of mixing in the ocean and its dependence upon eddy velocities.

Known for his colorful «puddle» abstract paintings, Davenport brings brilliantly chromatic canvases, a spectrum of more or less evenly painted stripes cascading down before some unseen current disrupts their flow, transforming them into swirling eddies of colors mixing together.

Zhang, X., T. Schneider, and C. M. Kaul, 2018: Arctic stratocumulus in large - eddy simulations and a mixed - layer model.

Instead, sub-grid scale parameterizations are used to parametrize the unresolved processes, such as cloud formation and the mixing due to oceanic eddies.

Luneva, M.V., C.A. Clayson, and M.S. Dubovikov, 2015: Effects of mesoscale eddies in the active mixed layer: Test of the parametrisation in eddy resolving simulations.

The EAC and its eddies frequently flow onto the continental shelf and inshore, influencing circulation patterns and increasing mixing.

[7] The Eddies produced cause an increase in vertical mixing within the Tasman Sea.

AFAIK the most important source of both vertical heat transport, and pseudo-random unforced variation in vertical heat transport, is vertical mixing driven by mesoscale eddies in the West Pacific.

• vertical mixing all the way down driven by mesoscale eddies, in turn driven by synoptic and major tropical cyclonic systems.

Besides, I pointed above to «vertical mixing driven by mesoscale eddies in the West Pacific.»

TURBULANT FLOW; (wind in surges, eddies, chaotic flow, spkiy erratic velocity) Layer of hot air canopy gets MIXED and heat in the boudary escapes to the sky.

This happens in the top 100 microns or less — giving a cool skin effect that is constantly renewed at the velocity of photons in the atmosphere and mixed into the ocean surface at the speed of eddies and waves.

It is clear to me, that the variance observed from region to region behave other than the influence of a well mixed gas; rather, the warm and cold spots reflect powerful forces, moving through gigantic masses governed by laws of mixing by eddies and turbulence not even remotely captured by program code.

The problem is the context was eddy diffusion which is not diffusive mixing.

''... sea ice deformation, ocean eddies, and associated ice - ocean boundary layer mixing, multiphase clouds as well as land - atmosphere - ice - ocean interactions.»

On the micro scale, what's happening is more like turbulent mixing, also called eddy diffusion.

These processes include oceanic mixing and eddy activity, atmospheric convection and cloud physics.

The two - day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice / ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large - scale arctic climate modeling (ice - ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and / or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications.

Tropical cyclones seem to me to be a very good potential source of forcing «by daily and six - hourly winds and heat fluxes», according to Enhanced vertical mixing within mesoscale eddies due to high frequency winds in the South China Sea [3]:

Leboissetier, A., N. Okong «o, and J. Bellan, 2005: Consistent large - eddy simulation of a temporal mixing layer laden with evaporating drops.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.

To the north of the deep mixed layers, eddy processes drive the warming and account for nearly 80 % of the northward heat transport anomaly.

When a gyre region is added to the channel, vertical diffusion in the gyre exerts some control on the channel stratification even at higher winds, forcing the mass balance into a mixed regime in which both eddy and diffusive effects are important.

Analysis of Eddies, Mixing, and Dense Overflows at the Iceland - Faroe Ridge in the Northern Atlantic Ocean Observed with Seagliders

Pilot balloon measurements during BoDEx point to a marked diurnal cycle in the wind speed such that the LLJ accelerates over a near frictionless inversion by night but is mixed down to the surface by extreme radiative heating through modification of eddy viscosity to produce a surface - wind - speed maximum by ≈ 1100 local time (32).