Lateral mixing and the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment: Observations and numerical simulations of Lagrangian particles and a passive tracer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C10, 1998, Pages 21481-21497

  Sundermeyer, Miles A ^a,c   Price, James F ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; MODELING; PARTICLE MOTION; TRACER;

EID: 0032531398     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC01999     Document Type: Article

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