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TI Oceanic Mesoscale Eddy Depletion Catalyzed by Internal Waves
BT 
AF BARKAN, Roy
   SRINIVASAN, Kaushik
   YANG, Luwei
   MCWILLIAMS, James C.
   GULA, Jonathan
   VIC, Clement
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C1 Tel Aviv Univ, Porter Sch Environm & Earth Sci, Tel Aviv, Israel.
   Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.
   Univ Bretagne Occidentale, Lab Oceanog Phys & Spatiale, Plouzane, France.
   Inst Univ France IUF, Paris, France.
   Univ Bretagne Occidentale, Lab Oceanog Phys & Spatiale, Plouzane, France.
C2 UNIV TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
   UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   INST UNIV FRANCE, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
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SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   WOS Cotutelle UMR
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 5.576
TC 29
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00730/84221/89141.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00730/84221/89142.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;oceanic energy transfers;mesoscale eddies;submesoscale fronts;internal waves
AB The processes leading to the depletion of oceanic mesoscale kinetic energy (KE) and the energization of near-inertial internal waves are investigated using a suite of realistically forced regional ocean simulations. By carefully modifying the forcing fields we show that solutions where internal waves are forced have similar to 25% less mesoscale KE compared with solutions where they are not. We apply a coarse-graining method to quantify the KE fluxes across time scales and demonstrate that the decrease in mesoscale KE is associated with an internal wave-induced reduction of the inverse energy cascade and an enhancement of the forward energy cascade from sub-to super-inertial frequencies. The integrated KE forward transfer rate in the upper ocean is equivalent to half and a quarter of the regionally averaged near-inertial wind work in winter and summer, respectively, with the strongest fluxes localized at surface submesoscale fronts and filaments. 
PY 2021
PD SEP
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 48
IS 18
UT 000703685100029
DI 10.1029/2021GL094376
ID 84221
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