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DOI10.1029/2019GL082458
Squeeze Dispersion and the Effective Diapycnal Diffusivity of Oceanic Tracers
Wagner, Gregory L.1; Flierl, Glenn1; Ferrari, Raffaele1; Voet, Gunnar2; Carter, Glenn S.3; Alford, Matthew H.2; Girton, James B.4
2019-05-28
发表期刊GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
ISSN0094-8276
EISSN1944-8007
出版年2019
卷号46期号:10页码:5378-5386
文章类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
英文摘要

We describe a process called "squeeze dispersion" in which the squeezing of oceanic tracer gradients by waves, eddies, and bathymetric flow modulates diapycnal diffusion by centimeter to meter-scale turbulence. Due to squeeze dispersion, the effective diapycnal diffusivity of oceanic tracers is different and typically greater than the average "local" diffusivity, especially when local diffusivity correlates with squeezing. We develop a theory to quantify the effects of squeeze dispersion on diapycnal oceanic transport, finding formulas that connect density-averaged tracer flux, locally measured diffusivity, large-scale oceanic strain, the thickness-weighted average buoyancy gradient, and the effective diffusivity of oceanic tracers. We use this effective diffusivity to interpret observations of abyssal flow through the Samoan Passage reported by Alford et al. (2013, https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50684) and find that squeezing modulates diapycnal tracer dispersion by factors between 0.5 and 3.


Plain Language Summary Turbulent vertical ocean mixing forms a key part of the Earth's climate system by drawing atmospheric carbon and heat into the massive reservoir that is the deep ocean. Quantifying vertical ocean mixing is difficult: vertical mixing is associated with turbulence at the tiny scales of centimeters to meters but affects the entire ocean on the long time scales of decades and centuries. We demonstrate that vertical ocean mixing depends not only on small-scale turbulence, but on the combination of small-scale turbulence and larger-scale motions, such as currents, eddies, and waves similar to the jet streams and hurricanes of the atmosphere. In particular, when a patch of ocean is mixed by small-scale turbulence while being "squeezed" in the vertical at the same time by currents and eddies, the patch ultimately mixes more quickly than the turbulence would cause alone. This means that estimating the total rate of oceanic vertical mixing requires knowledge both of the magnitude of ocean squeezing as well as the intensity of small-scale ocean turbulence.


领域气候变化
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000471237500041
WOS关键词DISSIPATION ; TURBULENCE ; TRANSPORT
WOS类目Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Geology
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/183404
专题气候变化
作者单位1.MIT, Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA;
2.Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA;
3.Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Oceanog, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA;
4.Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab, Seattle, WA 98105 USA
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Wagner, Gregory L.,Flierl, Glenn,Ferrari, Raffaele,et al. Squeeze Dispersion and the Effective Diapycnal Diffusivity of Oceanic Tracers[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(10):5378-5386.
APA Wagner, Gregory L..,Flierl, Glenn.,Ferrari, Raffaele.,Voet, Gunnar.,Carter, Glenn S..,...&Girton, James B..(2019).Squeeze Dispersion and the Effective Diapycnal Diffusivity of Oceanic Tracers.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(10),5378-5386.
MLA Wagner, Gregory L.,et al."Squeeze Dispersion and the Effective Diapycnal Diffusivity of Oceanic Tracers".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.10(2019):5378-5386.
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