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The fate of mesoscale eddy kinetic energy represents a large source of uncertainty in the global ocean energy budget. Satellite …

An overview of methods for measuring turbulence in the ocean, including from profiling floats and gliders, microstructure sensors on autonomous vehicles, and micro-temperature on CTD profiles.

Water-mass transformation by turbulent mixing is a key part of the deep-ocean overturning, as it drives the upwelling of dense waters …

Mesoscale eddies are ubiquitous dynamical features that tend to propagate westward and disappear along ocean western boundaries. Using …

A 4-month glider mission was analyzed to assess turbulent dissipation in an anticyclonic eddy at the western boundary of the …

The overturning circulation of the global ocean is regulated by deep-ocean mixing, which transforms cold waters sinking at high …

Updated methods to estimate turbulence from Seagliders (originally from Beaird et al. 2012), with a demonstration in the northeast Atlantic. The primary addition is to filter by local stratification as observed by the Seaglider. When N is large, this filter should isolate turbulent processes within the inertial subrange. When N is very low, within the surface mixed layer for example, this filtering acts to remove the mean and any trend with respect to depth from the vertical velocity.

Even if mesoscale eddies represent universal features of the ocean circulation, the processes by which their energy gets dissipated …

Despite the major role played by mesoscale eddies in redistributing the energy of the large-scale circulation, our understanding of …

Mesoscale eddies are effective large-scale stirrers which provide a crucial connection between mean flow scales, such as those in the …