Mickaël D. Chekroun

Apr 12, 2024 | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kaushik Srinivasan |Mickaël D. Chekroun |James McWilliams

1 Introduction Turbulent flows in physical systems span a vast range of spatial and temporal scales; in the Earth's oceans, for example, mesoscale eddies, the dominant reservoir of kinetic energy in the ocean, have scales of O(100 km) whereas, small-scale three dimensional motions at the air-sea interface driven by a combination of surface heating/cooling, wind action and the Earth's rotation have scales of O(1m).