Seasonal and spatial variations of Southern Ocean diapycnal mixing from Argo profiling floats

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 363-366

  Wu, Lixin ^a   Jing, Zhao ^a   Riser, Steve ^b   Visbeck, Martin ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; ARGO; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; IRIDIUM; MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79957860964     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1156     Document Type: Article

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