A new model for Double Diffusion + Turbulence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Canuto, V M ^a,b   Cheng, Y ^a,c   Howard, A M ^a,d  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFUSION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODELS (OGCMS); SECOND-ORDER CLOSURE MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DOUBLE DIFFUSION; MODELING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TURBULENCE;

EID: 40849092744     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032580     Document Type: Article

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