Flow, hydrography, turbulent mixing, and dissipation at Fieberling Guyot examined with a primitive equation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Lavelle, J William ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRANDTL NUMBER; TIDES; TURBULENT FLOW;

DIFFUSIVITY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MODELING; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PARAMETERIZATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 33846133539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003224     Document Type: Article

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