Advances in Ocean Mesoscale and Submesoscale Processes
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 2094
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mesoscale and submesoscale processes; vortex dynamics; turbulent dispersion; coherent eddy decay; air-sea interactions; autonomous measurement platforms
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mesoscale motion, with length scales ranging from a few tens to a few hundreds of kilometers, dominates the world ocean’s kinetic energy. The mesoscale includes eddying currents and geostrophic turbulence, as well as coherent eddies, and is key in tracer transport and dispersion (e.g., heat, salt, dissolved gases, nutrients, plankton, and contaminants). Higher in the kinetic energy spectrum lies the submesoscale, ranging between a few hundreds of meters to a few tens of kilometers. While the existence of fronts and filaments with such length scales was discovered in the early eighties, progress in high-resolution numerical models has since revealed the ubiquity and crucial role of submesoscale processes in the world ocean. In particular, submesoscale currents are thought to fill the gap between balanced mesoscale motions, whose energy is expected to cascade towards larger scales, and small-scale motions, where energy is dissipated.
This Special Issue welcomes observational, numerical, and theoretical contributions to the wide topic of mesoscale and submesoscale ocean dynamics. This includes, but is not limited to, geostrophic turbulence and dispersion, coherent Lagrangian transport, instability, air–sea interactions, (sub)mesoscale–internal waves interactions, frontogenesis, vertical motion, frontal instabilities, stirring and mixing, and biological applications.
Dr. Thomas Meunier
Guest Editor
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