The energy conversion rates from eddies and mean flow into internal lee waves in the global ocean

Bing HAN

doi:10.1007/s00343-021-1085-y

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The energy conversion rates from eddies and mean flow into internal lee waves in the global ocean

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- The energy conversion rates from eddies and mean flow into internal lee waves in the global ocean
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 40, Issue 4, Pages: 1304-1313(2022)
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  1.Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
  2.State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
  3.Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 20146, Germany
  4.Key Laboratory of Climate, Resources and Environment in Continental Shelf Sea and Deep Sea of Department of Education of Guangdong Province, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
- Author bio：
  
  Bing HAN, E-mail: hanbing060066@163.com
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-021-1085-y
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- Received：15 March 2021，
  
  Accepted：16 June 2021，
  
  Online First：18 August 2021，
  
  Published：2022-07
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Bing HAN. The energy conversion rates from eddies and mean flow into internal lee waves in the global ocean[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(4): 1304-1313.
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Bing HAN. The energy conversion rates from eddies and mean flow into internal lee waves in the global ocean[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2022, 40(4): 1304-1313. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-021-1085-y.

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Abstract

Internal lee waves play an important role in transferring energy from eddies to small scale mixing. However

the energy conversion from eddies into lee waves in the global ocean remains poorly understood. Conversion rates from eddies and from mean flow in the global ocean were differentiated using single beam sounding data

stratification from climatology

eddy velocity

and mean flow from a global ocean model. The global integral energy conversion from eddies is estimated to be 0.083 TW and is almost twice as that from the mean flow. A new method was developed to study the uncertainties of energy conversion caused by dealing with the topographic data. Results show that different data processing procedures

and the resolution and accuracy of topographic data have a significant impact on the estimated global energy conversion.

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