Deducing an upper bound to the horizontal eddy diffusivity using a stochastic Lagrangian model

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 499-520

  Carlson, Daniel F ^a   Fredj, Erick ^b   Gildor, Hezi ^c   Rom Kedar, Vered ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eddy diffusivity; High Frequency radar; Mixing barrier; Ocean mixing; Parameterization; Stirring; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; GYRE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING RATIO; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; PARAMETERIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER MASS;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 77956423784     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-010-9181-0     Document Type: Article

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