Seasonal variation of turbulent diapycnal mixing in the northwestern Pacific stirred by wind stress

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Jing, Zhao ^a   Wu, Lixin ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WIND STRESS;

DEEP OCEAN; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DIFFUSIVITIES; ENERGY INPUTS; MEAN VALUES; PARAMETERIZATION METHOD; POTENTIAL DENSITY; SCALE METHOD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WIND STRESS; UPPER OCEAN;

MIXING;

DEEP SEA; DIFFUSION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURBULENT MIXING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 78649836842     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045418     Document Type: Article

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