Nature Communications (May 2019)

Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides

  • Clément Vic,
  • Alberto C. Naveira Garabato,
  • J. A. Mattias Green,
  • Amy F. Waterhouse,
  • Zhongxiang Zhao,
  • Angélique Melet,
  • Casimir de Lavergne,
  • Maarten C. Buijsman,
  • Gordon R. Stephenson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10149-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The geography of deep-ocean mixing driven by internal tides is poorly constrained in ocean models. Here the authors unveil the global variability of energetic small-scale internal tides, combining an analytical model with satellite and in situ observations, paving the way to future parameterisations.