Breaking internal waves on sloping topography: connecting parcel displacements to overturn size, interior-boundary exchanges, and mixing
Victoria Whitley,
Jacob Wenegrat
Abstract:Internal waves impinging on sloping topography can generate mixing through the formation of near-bottom bores and overturns in what has been called the `internal swash' zone. Here we investigate the mixing generated during these breaking events, and the subsequent ventilation of the bottom boundary layer, across a realistic non-dimensional parameter space for the ocean using three-dimensional large eddy simulations. Waves overturn and break at two points during a wave period: when the downslope velocity is str… Show more
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