Reply to 'Comments on 'Langmuir Turbulence and Surface Heating in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer''

摘要

The differences between the conclusions of Noh and Choi and of Pearson et al., which are largely a result of defining different length scales based on different quantities, are discussed. This study shows that the layer over which Langmuir turbulence mixes (nominally hTKE) under a stabilizing surface buoyancy flux should be scaled by a combination of the Langmuir stability length LL and initialocturnal boundary layer depth h(0) rather than by the Zilitinkevich length.