Journal article
Ocean mixing by wave orbital motion
M Ghantous, AV Babanin
Acta Physica Slovaca | SLOVAK ACAD SCIENCES INST PHYSICS | Published : 2014
Abstract
Improvements in numerical ocean models and more and better observations have made the gaps between the two all the more apparent. In a recent resurgence in the study of turbulence due to wave orbital motion, some scholars have sought to address part of the problem by proposing the mechanism as an important missing part from vertical mixing models. Yet the subject remains contentious. This review is an attempt to bring together in one place the main results and insights from almost a century of scholarly discourse on the subject, demonstrating the breadth of ideas therein, as well as highlighting some of the outstanding problems.
Grants
Awarded by Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer
Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Dmitry Chalikov for his help in working with the coupled wave-LES model and for useful discussions with him. We are indebted to Anna Babanina for her posthaste translation into English of the article by Dobroklonskiy, and to Lidong Cui for translating for us the papers by Cao and Ma. For a thorough reading of the manuscript and helpful comments we must also thank Fangli Qiao, and Jeff Book and Will Phillips also provided vital advice in specific areas. We extend our thanks to the editor and an anonymous reviewer for their careful reading and constructive criticism. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC Discovery grant DP130100227).