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PT J
TI Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides
BT 
AF VIC, Clement
   Naveira GARABATO, Alberto C.
   GREEN, J. A. Mattias
   WATERHOUSE, Amy F.
   ZHAO, Zhongxiang
   MELET, Angelique
   DE LAVERGNE, Casimir
   BUIJSMAN, Maarten C.
   STEPHENSON, Gordon R.
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C1 Univ Southampton, Natl Oceanog Ctr, Ocean & Earth Sci, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England.
   Bangor Univ, Sch Ocean Sci, Menai Bridge LL57 2DG, Anglesey, Wales.
   Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
   Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab, Seattle, WA 98105 USA.
   Mercator Ocean, F-31520 Ramonville St Agne, France.
   Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, MNHN, LOCEAN Lab,IRD, F-75005 Paris, France.
   Univ Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Ctr, Hattiesburg, MS 39556 USA.
   LOPS, Plouzane, Bretagne, France.
C2 UNIV SOUTHAMPTON, UK
   UNIV BANGOR, UK
   UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO, USA
   UNIV WASHINGTON, USA
   MERCATOR OCEAN, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   UNIV SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI, USA
   UBO, FRANCE
UM LOPS
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 12.121
TC 109
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00601/71275/69674.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00601/71275/69675.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Turbulent mixing in the ocean is key to regulate the transport of heat, freshwater and biogeochemical tracers, with strong implications for Earth's climate. In the deep ocean, tides supply much of the mechanical energy required to sustain mixing via the generation of internal waves, known as internal tides, whose fate-the relative importance of their local versus remote breaking into turbulence-remains uncertain. Here, we combine a semi-analytical model of internal tide generation with satellite and in situ measurements to show that from an energetic viewpoint, small-scale internal tides, hitherto overlooked, account for the bulk (>50%) of global internal tide generation, breaking and mixing. Furthermore, we unveil the pronounced geographical variations of their energy proportion, ignored by current parameterisations of mixing in climate-scale models. Based on these results, we propose a physically consistent, observationally supported approach to accurately represent the dissipation of small-scale internal tides and their induced mixing in climate-scale models. 
PY 2019
PD MAY
SO Nature Communications
SN 2041-1723
PU Nature Publishing Group
VL 10
IS 2099
UT 000467370800004
DI 10.1038/s41467-019-10149-5
ID 71275
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