An estimation of buoyancy flux for a mixture of turbulence and double diffusion

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 611-624

  Inoue, Ryuichiro ^a,d   Yamazaki, Hidekatssu ^a   Wolk, Fabian ^b   Kono, Tokihiro ^c   Yoshida, Jiro ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Rockland Oceanographic Services Inc   (Canada)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE;

BUOYANCY FLUX; DIFFUSITIVITY MODEL;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BUOYANCY; DENSITY CURRENT; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; MIXING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TURBULENCE;

EID: 34247476186     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2996.1     Document Type: Article

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