Linking Ocean Mixing and Circulation

• Walter Munk, in his famous abyssal recipes, showed more than half a century ago that the strength of the global overturning circulation is closely linked to diapycnal mixing. Since then, oceanographic research has succeeded in identifying more and more processes generating mixing and overturning circulation: internal-wave mixing, boundary mixing, wake eddies, gravity currents, double diffusion, and many more. The same dependence was also observed in other marine systems at smaller scales, including marginal and semienclosed seas and estuaries. Numerical models describing these mechanisms often include discretization errors that become evident in particular in the form of spurious numerical mixing, which may trigger artificial circulation patterns at all scales. The Warnemünde Turbulence Days (WTD, http://www.io-warnemuende.de/wtd.html) have been established in 2003 to provide a regular international forum for discussing new developments in marine turbulence. Since then, the WTD have been organized on a biannual basis with the 11th WTD taking place during 17–20 September 2023 in Rostock. We invited contributions discussing all aspects of mixing in the ocean, especially, however, those that focus on the relation of mixing and circulation at all relevant scales.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Eddies

Inertia-gravity waves

Meridional overturning circulation

Mixing

Ocean circulation

Turbulence

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