Effects of mixing on the subduction of South Pacific waters identified by a simulated passive tracer and its adjoint

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 45-54

  Gao, Shan ^a   Qu, Tangdong ^b   Fukumori, Ichiro ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing; South Pacific; Subduction; Tracer

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; BOLUS TRANSPORT; DIABATIC PROCESS; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING PROCESS; MODEL SIMULATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC WATER; PARTICLE-TRACKING METHOD; PASSIVE TRACERS; SOUTH PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION RATES; TRACER; TRACING PARTICLE; WATER MASS SUBDUCTION;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MIXING;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; MASS TRANSPORT; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRACKING; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 78651098654     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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