The University of Southampton
University of Southampton Institutional Repository

Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean

Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean
Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean
Observations of internal wave velocity fluctuations show that enhanced turbulent mixing over rough topography in the Southern Ocean is remarkably intense and widespread. Mixing rates exceeding background values by a factor of 10 to 1000 are common above complex bathymetry over a distance of 2000 to 3000 kilometers at depths greater than 500 to 1000 meters. This suggests that turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean may contribute crucially to driving the upward transport of water closing the ocean's meridional overturning circulation, and thus needs to be represented in numerical simulations of the global ocean circulation and the spreading of biogeochemical tracers.
0036-8075
210-213
Naveira Garabato, A.C.
97c0e923-f076-4b38-b89b-938e11cea7a6
Polzin, K.L.
a6ad08a3-7577-4b70-9db7-65926301df6f
King, B.A.
d9d50671-3777-453b-9f85-c67a56a4d8b8
Heywood, K.J.
4eeebe72-3857-4729-8d6a-7ece46d37cd5
Visbeck, M.
d0fb088d-6ef6-4772-99e9-8609e792a6e9
Naveira Garabato, A.C.
97c0e923-f076-4b38-b89b-938e11cea7a6
Polzin, K.L.
a6ad08a3-7577-4b70-9db7-65926301df6f
King, B.A.
d9d50671-3777-453b-9f85-c67a56a4d8b8
Heywood, K.J.
4eeebe72-3857-4729-8d6a-7ece46d37cd5
Visbeck, M.
d0fb088d-6ef6-4772-99e9-8609e792a6e9

Naveira Garabato, A.C., Polzin, K.L., King, B.A., Heywood, K.J. and Visbeck, M. (2004) Widespread intense turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean. Science, 303 (5655), 210-213. (doi:10.1126/science.1090929).

Record type: Article

Abstract

Observations of internal wave velocity fluctuations show that enhanced turbulent mixing over rough topography in the Southern Ocean is remarkably intense and widespread. Mixing rates exceeding background values by a factor of 10 to 1000 are common above complex bathymetry over a distance of 2000 to 3000 kilometers at depths greater than 500 to 1000 meters. This suggests that turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean may contribute crucially to driving the upward transport of water closing the ocean's meridional overturning circulation, and thus needs to be represented in numerical simulations of the global ocean circulation and the spreading of biogeochemical tracers.

This record has no associated files available for download.

More information

Published date: 2004
Organisations: National Oceanography Centre

Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 1378
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/1378
ISSN: 0036-8075
PURE UUID: 5aa11bb0-ec6c-4aa4-86dc-b50bc477d9d7
ORCID for A.C. Naveira Garabato: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6071-605X

Catalogue record

Date deposited: 06 May 2004
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:48

Export record

Altmetrics

Contributors

Author: K.L. Polzin
Author: B.A. King
Author: K.J. Heywood
Author: M. Visbeck

Download statistics

Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.

View more statistics

Atom RSS 1.0 RSS 2.0

Contact ePrints Soton: eprints@soton.ac.uk

ePrints Soton supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/oai2

This repository has been built using EPrints software, developed at the University of Southampton, but available to everyone to use.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.

×