Isolating the role of mesoscale eddies in mixing of a passive tracer in an eddy resolving model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Booth, James ^a   Kamenkovich, Igor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EDDY FLUXES; EDDY-ADVECTION; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; MESOSCALE EDDY; NONLOCAL; NONUNIFORM; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL MODELS; PASSIVE TRACERS; SUBPOLAR GYRES;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADVECTION; CFC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 68049102965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004510     Document Type: Article

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