Intense mixing of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Fer, Ilker ^a,b   Voet, Gunnar ^c   Seim, Knut S ^d   Rudels, Bert ^e,f   Latarius, Katrin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENTRAINMENT VELOCITIES; FAROE BANK CHANNEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

MIXING;

EID: 77955421768     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041924     Document Type: Article

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