To-do checks of physical mechanisms to tie to existing literature

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Do we have the air-sea interaction mechanisms discussed in the literature?

• Chelton and Xie 2010 argue that winds (and stress etc) respond to mesoscale SST locally through a boundary layer response (through changes in stability). Do we see this in CM2.6 or NCAR model?
  • Reproduce Figure 1 e.

If we can confirm that these air-sea interaction mechanisms are active, we would like to dig into what is causing the flux enhancement at small scales.

• We know that most of the enhancement we see is a result of filtering the velocity field.
• There are papers from 1990s discussing gustiness (small-scale winds) as a mechanism to enhance surface fluxes.
• Look at winds vs ocean current strengths.