Large eddy simulations of mixed layer instabilities and sampling strategies

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 311-331

  Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Poje, Andrew C ^b   Fischer, Paul F ^c   Haza, Angelique C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian sampling; Submesoscale; Tracers

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FIELDS; ENERGY CASCADE; ENTIRE DOMAIN; FLOW REGIMES; LAGRANGIAN SAMPLING; MIXED LAYER; MIXING MEASURE; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SUBMESOSCALE; TWO PARAMETER; VERTICAL SHEAR;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION;

EDDY; FLOW VELOCITY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; TRACER; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 80051474882     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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