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Laboratory modelling of momentum transport by internal gravity waves and eddies in the Antarctic circumpolar current

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The Antarctic Circumpolar current is recognized as a key location for ocean mixing, and its interaction with the bottom topography is an important source of energy dissipation and mixing. We have reproduced this process in a linearly stratified fluid on the Coriolis rotating platform, 13 m in diameter. A uniform circular current around the tank is produced by a small change of tank rotation speed (spinup) which persists by inertia for the duration of the experiment. The wake of a single spherical cap is first investigated, involving wave emission and vortex shedding. Then a bottom roughness is introduced as a set of 18 spherical caps. In the absence of background rotation, the friction effect on the current is mainly confined to the wake located below the topography top, with a weak contribution of the radiated lee waves. By contrast, the background rotation favors the downward transport of momentum by mechanisms that we relate to the excitation of inertial waves and Ekman pumping enhanced by the rough bottom.
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hal-01648235 , version 1 (25-11-2017)

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Joël Sommeria, Adekunle-Opeoluwa Ajayi, Keshav Jayakrishnan Raja, Chantal Staquet, Samuel Viboud, et al.. Laboratory modelling of momentum transport by internal gravity waves and eddies in the Antarctic circumpolar current. VIIIth International Symposium on Stratified Flows (ISSF), Aug 2016, San Diego, CA, United States. ⟨hal-01648235⟩

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