Intensified turbulent mixing in the boundary current system of southern Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Lauderdale, Jonathan M ^a   Bacon, Sheldon ^a   Garabato, Alberto C Naveira ^a   Holliday, N Penny ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER WAVES;

BOUNDARY CURRENT SYSTEM; INTERNAL WAVE STRAIN; TURBULENT MIXING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INTERNAL WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DENMARK STRAIT; GREENLAND; IRMINGER SEA; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 44249097090     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032785     Document Type: Article

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