Ocean turbulence, III: New GISS vertical mixing scheme

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 70-91

  Canuto, V M ^a,b   Howard, A M ^a,c   Cheng, Y ^a,d   Muller, C J ^e   Leboissetier, A ^a,e   Jayne, S R ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Double diffusion; Mixing; OGCM; Tides; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CUBIC EQUATIONS; DENSITY RATIO; DIFFUSIVITIES; DOUBLE DIFFUSION; DYNAMIC EQUATIONS; FLUX RICHARDSON NUMBER; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; MASS DIFFUSIVITY; MIXED LAYER; MIXING EFFICIENCY; OCEAN TURBULENCE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SALT FLUX; STATE OF THE ART; TIDAL ENERGY; TRADITIONAL VALUES; TURBULENT DIFFUSIVITIES; TURBULENT PRANDTL NUMBER; VERTICAL MIXING; Z-PROFILES;

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MIXED CONVECTION; MIXING; MOMENTUM; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STREAM FLOW; TIDAL POWER; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

DOUBLE DIFFUSION; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RICHARDSON NUMBER; THERMOCLINE; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 77954215086     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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