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

摘要

Using large-eddy simulations (LES) it is shown that the depth of a diurnal thermocline h should be scaled by the Zilitinkevich scale L-Z, not by the Monin-Obukhov length scale L-MO, contrary to the proposition by Pearson et al. Their argument to explain the slower increase of h than L-MO using the effect of the preexisting thermocline is also invalid.