Mixing rates across the Gulf Stream, part 2: Implications for nonlocal parameterization of vertical fluxes in the surface boundary layers

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 673-698

  Inoue, R ^a   Harcourt, R R ^a   Gregg, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC MOTION; ENTRAINMENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXED LAYER; MIXING RATIO; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 79960582196     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: 15439542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/002224011795977626     Document Type: Article

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