Time integration of diapycnal diffusion and Richardson number-dependent mixing in isopycnal coordinate ocean models

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1402-1419

  Hallberg, Robert ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; MIXING; RICHARDSON NUMBER;

EID: 0033911486     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1402:TIODDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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