Ocean Mixing: Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts

Ocean Mixing: Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts presents a broad panorama of one of the most rapidly-developing areas of marine science. It highlights the state-of-the-art concerning knowledge of the causes of ocean mixing, and a perspective on the implications for ocean circulation, climate, biogeochemistry and the marine ecosystem. This edited volume places a particular emphasis on elucidating the key future questions relating to ocean mixing, and emerging ideas and activities to address them, including innovative technology developments and advances in methodology. Ocean Mixing is a key reference for those entering the field, and for those seeking a comprehensive overview of how the key current issues are being addressed and what the priorities for future research are. Each chapter is written by established leaders in ocean mixing research; the volume is thus suitable for those seeking specific detailed information on sub-topics, as well as those seeking a broad synopsis of current understanding. It provides useful ammunition for those pursuing funding for specific future research campaigns, by being an authoritative source concerning key scientific goals in the short, medium and long term. Additionally, the chapters contain bespoke and informative graphics that can be used in teaching and science communication to convey the complex concepts and phenomena in easily accessible ways. Presents a coherent overview of the state-of-the-art research concerning ocean mixing Provides an in-depth discussion of how ocean mixing impacts all scales of the planetary system Includes elucidation of the grand challenges in ocean mixing, and how they might be addressed INDICE: 1. Ocean mixing: oceanography at a watershedAlberto Naveira Garabato and Michael Meredith2. The role of ocean mixing in the climate systemAngélique V. Melet, Robert Hallberg and David P. Marshall3. The role of mixing in the large-scale ocean circulationCasimir de Lavergne, Sjoerd Groeskamp, Jan Zika and Helen L. Johnson4. Ocean near-surface layersBaylor Fox-Kemper, Leah Johnson and Fangli Qiao5. The lifecycle of surface-generated near-inertial wavesLeif N. Thomas and Xiaoming Zhai6. The lifecycle of topographically-generated internal wavesRuth Musgrave, Friederike Pollmann, Samuel Kelly and Maxim Nikurashin7. Mixing at the ocean's bottom boundaryKurt L. Polzin and Trevor J. McDougall8. Submesoscale processes and mixingJonathan Gula, John Taylor, Andrey Shcherbina and Amala Mahadevan9. Isopycnal mixingRyan Abernathey, Anand Gnanadesikan, Marie-Aude Pradal and Miles A. Sundermeyer10.Mixing in equatorial oceansJames N. Moum, Andrei Natarov, Kelvin J. Richards, Emily L. Shroyer and William D. Smyth11.Mixing in the Arctic oceanYueng-Djern Lenn, Ilker Fer, Mary-Louise Timmermans and Jennifer A. MacKinnon12.Mixing in the Southern OceanSarah T. Gille, Katy L. Sheen, Sebastiaan Swart and Andrew F. Thompson13.The crucial contribution of mixing to present and future ocean oxygen distributionMarina Lévy, Laure Resplandy, Jaime B. Palter, Damien Couespel and Zouhair Lachkar14.New technological frontiers in ocean mixingEleanor Frajka-Williams, J. Alexander Brearley, Jonathan D. Nash and Caitlin B. Whalen

• ISBN: 978-0-12-821512-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 21/09/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés