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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 472, Issue 2189, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2016.0117
Keywords
submesoscale; turbulence; frontogenesis; instability
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- US Office of Naval Research [N000141410626]
- Directorate For Geosciences [1355970] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [1355970] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This article is a perspective on the recently discovered realm of submesoscale currents in the ocean. They are intermediate-scale flow structures in the form of density fronts and filaments, topographic wakes and persistent coherent vortices at the surface and throughout the interior. They are created from mesoscale eddies and strong currents, and they provide a dynamical conduit for energy transfer towards microscale dissipation and diapycnal mixing. Consideration is given to their generation mechanisms, instabilities, life cycles, disruption of approximately diagnostic force balance (e.g. geostrophy), turbulent cascades, internal-wave interactions, and transport and dispersion of materials. At a fundamental level, more questions remain than answers, implicating a programme for further research.
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