Ventilation processes and water mass ages in the thermocline of the southeast Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2777-2780

  Karstensen, Johannes ^a   Tomczak, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND STRESS; MIXING; NUTRIENTS; STREAM FLOW; VENTILATION;

OCEANOGRAPHIC VENTILATION PROCESSES; WATER MASS AGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION; THERMOCLINE; VENTILATION; WATER MASS AGES; WATER MASSES;

INDIAN OCEAN, (SOUTHEAST);

HYDROGRAPHIC PROPERTIES; MIXING ANALYSIS; MIXING MODELS; PERMANENT THERMOCLINES; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SUBDUCTION PROCESS; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; WIND STRESS CURL;

EID: 0031277552     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02708     Document Type: Article

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