Vertical mixing at intermediate depths in the Arctic boundary current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Lenn, Y D ^a   Wiles, P J ^a   Torres Valdes, S ^b   Abrahamsen, E P ^c   Rippeth, T P ^a   Simpson, J H ^a   Bacon, S ^b   Laxon, S W ^d   Polyakov, I ^e   Ivanov, V ^e   Kirillov, S ^f  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SHELF WATERS; STREAM WATER; THERMOHALINE; TURBULENT EDDY; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WARM SURFACE;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HALOCLINE; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHY; KINETIC ENERGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; SHELF SEA; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 65649131543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036792     Document Type: Article

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