Spurious diapycnal mixing associated with advection in a z-coordinate ocean model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 538-564

  Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Pacanowski, Ronald C ^a   Hallberg, Robert W ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DENSITY; MIXING; PYCNOCLINE;

EID: 0034096826     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0538:SDMAWA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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