Main Result Plots

[jbusecke]

Hey @ocean-transport/collab_team, I think we are now in the position to start writing a paper.

I have implemented #37 and #39, and have addressed #43 and #46 with intermediate fixes.

And now 🥁 ... my suggestion for Figure 1 of our paper

This summarizes the main result of all of our efforts! Rows are Latent and sensible heat flux (we leave evaporation out for now, see #44). On the left column we plot the long term mean of the filtered full output:

, and on the right the small scale contribution:

EDIT: Updated figure with histograms of the full (upper right) and small scale contribution (lower right) histograms:

Some Observations

• While the full fields do not look very similar, the small scale contribution has a very similar pattern!
• Is the sensible heat flux negative in the ocean when averaged over long time scales? I might have to double check this, since I am fairly sure it should be positive in some regions on a seasonal scale...

[jbusecke]

Proposed Figure 2: Mechanisms for Small Scale Contribution

This shows again, latent and sensible heat flux in rows. From left to right:

• left: the small scale contribution (same as in the right column in Fig 1.)
• middle:
• right:

[jbusecke]

I had a quick look at the seasonal averages and the resulting small scale contributions:

This is just the small scale contribution for different seasons for the sensible heatflux.

There are some things changing quite a bit throughout the season, but none of it comes really at a surprise? The NH signal is stronger in the boreal winter (which I would expect - colder air, deeper mixed layers, stronger submesoscale?) The tropical signal seems to completely dissapear in the boreal winter. Not sure if that is expected.

We talked about this with @paigem and @dhruvbalwada, and decided to not include this figure in the current paper. We think that the seasonality could be explored in a more comprehensive way once we have the DYNAMITE data available and can look at a larger spectrum of small scales.