A Tracer-Contour inverse method for estimating ocean circulation and mixing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-47

  Zika, Jan D ^a,b   Mcdougall, Trevor J ^b   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INVERSE METHODS; LAYERED MODEL; MEAN FLOW; MIXING RATES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STREAMFUNCTIONS; THERMAL WINDS; THERMOHALINE OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; TIME-AVERAGED; VERTICAL MIXING;

MIXING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGRAPHY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MIXING RATIO; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TRACER; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77953235383     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4208.1     Document Type: Article

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