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Resolving the Horizontal Direction of Internal Tide Generation: Global Application for the M2 Tide’s First Mode
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Meteorology .ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4414-6859
2023 (English)In: Journal of Physical Oceanography, ISSN 0022-3670, E-ISSN 1520-0485, Vol. 53, no 5, p. 1251-1267Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Breaking internal tides contribute substantially to small-scale turbulent mixing in the ocean interior and hence to maintaining the large-scale overturning circulation. How much internal tide energy is available for ocean mixing can be estimated by using semianalytical methods based on linear theory. Until recently, a method resolving the horizontal direction of the internal waves generated by conversion of the barotropic tide was lacking. We here present the first global application of such a method to the first vertical mode of the principal lunar semidiurnal internal tide. We also show that the effect of supercritical slopes on the modally decomposed internal tides is different than previously suggested. To deal with this the continental shelf and the shelf slope are masked in the global computation. The global energy conversion obtained agrees roughly with the previous results by Falahat et al. if the mask is applied to their result, which decreases their energy conversion by half. Thus, around half of the energy conversion obtained by their linear calculations occurs at continental slopes and shelves, where linear theory tends to break down. The barotropic-to-baroclinic energy flux at subcritical slopes away from the continental margins is shown to vary substantially with direction depending on the shape and orientation of topographic obstacles and the direction of the local tidal currents. Taking this additional information into account in tidal mixing parameterizations could have important ramifications for vertical mixing and water mass properties in global numerical simulations. 

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2023. Vol. 53, no 5, p. 1251-1267
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Internal waves, Topographic effects, Oceanic waves, Tides
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Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234073DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0144.1ISI: 000986701300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85163201625OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-234073DiVA, id: diva2:1903726
Available from: 2024-10-07 Created: 2024-10-07 Last updated: 2024-10-16Bibliographically approved

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