Material transport in a convective surface mixed layer under weak wind forcing

Observations of mixed layer restratification by onshore surface transport following wind reversal in a coastal upwelling region

[1] Observations, from the Oregon continental shelf, describe the slumping of a coastal upwelling front in response to a reversal of winds from upwellingto downwellingfavorable. Initially, the front outcropped in a surface mixed layer of depth 10–20 m with a pronounced cross-shelf density gradient. Following wind reversal, both the unbalanced cross-shelf pressure gradient and wind-driven Ekman ...

Surface - temperature and surface - layer turbulence in a convective 1 boundary layer

Surface Fluxes and Wind-Wave Interactions in Weak Wind Conditions

We will isolate a number of influences on air-sea transfer of momentum, heat, and moisture for weak wind conditions. We will focus on the important impact of swell amplitude and propagation direction and the explicit influence of large atmospheric eddies on the stability functions for the transfer coefficients for surface fluxes. Improved understanding of the various influences on sea surface f...

Mm5 Wintertime Simulations of the Antarctic Boundary-layer Wind Forcing

Mechanisms Maintaining Southern Ocean Meridional Heat Transport under Projected Wind Forcing

Meridional heat transport (MHT) in the Southern Ocean (SO) and its components are analyzed with two eddy-permitting climate models. The two models present a consistent picture of the MHT response to projected twenty-first-century changes in SO winds. In agreement with a recent analysis based on an ocean data synthesis product, much of the MHT in the SO is found to be due to the time-mean fields...