Posted by Randy Watts on November 07, 2000 at 11:14:04:
In Reply to: Implications for stirring and mixing posted by Bruce Howe on September 21, 2000 at 13:42:40:
: Randy et al,
: a very nice poster. what are the implications of your results
: regarding large scale stirring and mixing. For example, what are the
: eddy momentum and heat fluxes associated with your measurements
: and how do they compare with overall estimates of mean meridional
: values? and do the barotropic/baroclinic interactions imply vertical
: fluxes - and how do they compare with large scale estimates?
: Bruce
Thanks Bruce. These are tough, highly relevant
questions. I'll tell you the most relevant
information I know about them:
The eddy momentum fluxes and eddy heat or PE
fluxes for this same experiment were studied by
Cronin and Watts (JPO, 1996, p.2107) and by
Cronin (JPO, 1996, p. 2132). The last figures in
each of those two papers showed that the
eddy flux statistics were completely dominated by the 6-8
strong events having strong deep eddies (same
events called "abyssal storms" in this poster).
Hence the barotropic/baroclinic interactions
illustrated in the case-studies of this poster
account for almost all of the eddy flux divergences
and associated eddy-mean interactions.