Progress in the impacts of Langmuir Circulation in upper ocean mixing under typhoon condition

Ding Yamei; Mao Kefeng; Xiao Zhongle; Chen Xi

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2018.01.001

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Ding Yamei, Mao Kefeng, Xiao Zhongle, Chen Xi. Progress in the impacts of Langmuir Circulation in upper ocean mixing under typhoon condition[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2018, 40(1): 1-9. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2018.01.001

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Ding Yamei, Mao Kefeng, Xiao Zhongle, Chen Xi. Progress in the impacts of Langmuir Circulation in upper ocean mixing under typhoon condition[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2018, 40(1): 1-9. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2018.01.001

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Progress in the impacts of Langmuir Circulation in upper ocean mixing under typhoon condition

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2018.01.001

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Hydrometric and Meteorological Center of East China Sea Fleet, Ningbo 315122, China
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Institute of Meteorology, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing 211101, China
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The 96631 Unit of PLA, Beijing 102208, China

Received Date: 2017-04-16

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In this paper, the research advances in the impacts of Langmuir Circulation (LC) on ocean mixing under the typhoon condition in the past 10 years is reviewed. It has been widely recognized that Langmuir turbulence plays an important role in the forming and deepening of the upper mixed layer. But the mechanism and degree of the LC effects on the upper ocean mixing still have many uncertainties. Observations indicated that, under the action of typhoon, the average vertical kinetic energy of the mixed layer near the eye was strongly depressed, which may be related to the variation of the Langmuir induced turbulence at different locations of typhoon. Under typhoon condition, the existing Langmuir parameterization schemes have appreciable deviations when simulating the upper ocean mixing. Thus, in future studies, an improved approximation of the Stokes drift velocity profile and the explicitly resolving the sea-state-dependent Langmuir turbulence will lead to increased accuracy in predicting the ocean response in coupled tropical cyclone-ocean models,that is a necessary way to reveal the mechanism of the LC effects on the upper ocean mixing under typhoon condition.
- Langmuir Circulation,
- the upper ocean mixing,
- typhoon,
- stokes drift

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