Tag Archive: internal waves

RP4 Ocean Extremes report – August 21

August 13, 2021 1:53 pm Published by Comments Off on RP4 Ocean Extremes report – August 21

The ocean extremes research program is underway with regular meetings, split between marine heatwaves meetings on the first Friday of the month and ocean biogeochemistry meetings every fortnight. We have also been engaging externally with industry stakeholders and our peer networks.

Research brief: How internal waves drive mixing in the Southern Ocean

May 6, 2021 12:35 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: How internal waves drive mixing in the Southern Ocean

Major gaps exist in our understanding of the pathways between the generation and the breaking of internal waves in the Southern Ocean. This has important implications for the distribution of internal wave-driven turbulent mixing, for the sensitivity of ocean mixing rates, and for the representation of ocean mixing in numerical models.