Dynamical roles of mixed layer in regulating the meridional mass/heat fluxes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Rui Xin ^a   Huang, Chuan Jiang ^b   Wang, Wei ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN;

EID: 41049111046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC004046     Document Type: Article

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