Abstract

The Garrett and Munk spectrum describes the turbulence of the ocean interior due to internal gravity waves. We use the unique large scale Coriolis facility and force turbulence by large scale waves to reproduce the main features of wave turbulence in a stratified fluid in the laboratory. A transition from weakly nonlinear waves to strongly nonlinear stratified turbulence was indeed observed when increasing the buoyancy Reynolds number.

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