Statistical Methods in Physical Oceanography: Proceedings of 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop Held in Manoa, Hawaii on January 12-15, 1993

Spinning phenomena and energetics of spherically pulsating patterns in stratified fluids

“…The GM spectrum is often used as a representative statistical description of the internal wave field in studies of nonlinear wave interactions and mixing parameterization (e.g. [10,25]). Observations of the internal wave spectrum in the deep ocean indicate the remarkable fact that it has a very similar shape wherever it is observed, unless the observations are made close to a strong source of internal waves.…”

“…For example, mixing is responsible for the advection and dispersion of chemical and biological traces [28] and plays an important role in climate variability and the global ocean circulation [38]. An understanding of the dynamical processes of internal wave interactions and their energy exchange constitutes the major basis for the construction of the complete dynamics [25].…”