Literature Survey - dhruvbalwada/sogos GitHub Wiki

This page provides an overview of other recent work around observations of submesoscales and ventilation that has come out for the Southern Ocean:

Glider Based

  • Du Plessis et al 2017: Submesoscale processes promote seasonal restratification in the subantarctic Ocean
  • Du Plessis et al 2019: Southern Ocean Seasonal Restratification Delayed by Submesoscale Wind-Front Interactions (impact of submesoscales on mixed layer stratification)
  • Giddy et al 202X (submesoscales in MIZ)
  • Viglione et al 2018: Abrupt transitions in the submesoscale structure in Southern Drake Passage: Glider observations and model results (look at statistics of instabilities and heat fluxes due to them)

Argo Float Based

  • Llort et al 2018: Evaluating southern ocean carbon eddy-pump from BGC argo floats (use tracer anomalies at depth as a proxy for submesoscale subduction events)

Higher res instruments, seals

  • Adams et al 2017: Frontal circulation and submesoscale variability during the formation of a Southern Ocean mesoscale eddy (surveyed an edge of an eddy at very high resolution and then estimated vertical flow using collocated gliders. )
  • Siegelman et al 2019: Enhanced upward heat transport at deep submesoscale ocean fronts (estimated vertical velocities using QG omega equation, had no horizontal velocity estimates).

Models

  • Balwada et al 2018 (impact of submesoscales on passive tracers)
  • Uchida et al 2019 (impact of submesoscales on iron fluxes and BGC)
  • Nicholson et al (storms)
  • Klocker 2018
  • Bachman and Klocker 2020

For Other regions:

  • Erickson and Thompson 2018: The Seasonality of Physically Driven Export at Submesoscales in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (show that. there is more transport when N2 is weak at base of ML)
  • Thompson et al 2016: Open Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A full seasonal cycle of mixed layer instabilities from gliders (show the variety and timing of different submesoscale instabilities)
  • Stukel et al 2017 - Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction (show signature of along isopycnal subduction in the California current)
  • Thomas et al 2013: Symmetric Instability in the Gulf Stream (observational methods to identify class of instabilities, used high res hydrograph along with ADCP)
  • Pietri et al 2013: Finescale vertical structure of the Upwelling System off Southern Peru as Observed from Glider data (show salinity structures emanating from the base of the ML, which are quasi aligned with isopycnals).
  • Archer et al 2020: Observations of submesoscale variability and frontal subduction within the mesoscale eddy field of the Tasman Sea ()
  • Brannigan 2016: Intense submesoscale upwelling in anticyclonic eddies (upwelling in Anticyclones due to Symmetric instabilities)