| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Ocean Mixing Matters |
| Main Convener | Dr. Taira Nagai (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Zhiyu Liu (Xiamen University, China) Dr. Chuanyu Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dr. Qiang Li (Tsinghua University, China) |
| Session Description | Ocean mixing is one of the most prominent problems in physical oceanography and climate modeling today. Mixing maintains the ocean’s vertical stratification, contributes to the global overturning circulation, distributes nutrients and larvae for biological productivity and fisheries, redistributes heat and salt, and influences climate dynamics. Many mechanisms contribute to mixing from wind, tides, and the interaction of flow with topography to biology and double diffusion. This results in a wide range scales from centimetres to hundreds of kilometres. The wide range of scales along with the sporadic and localized nature of mixing makes it difficult both to measure and to simulate. This session invites research concerning all aspects of ocean mixing, including wind-driven mixing, tidal mixing, lee wave mixing, sill-induced mixing, and biologically-induced mixing. It encompasses mixing within the water column from the surface to the sea bed and the spatial and temporal dependencies of mixing. Both observational and modelling approaches to this topic are welcome, along with theoretical approaches |