Diagnosing lateral mixing in the upper ocean with virtual tracers: Spatial and temporal resolution dependence

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1512-1534

  Keating, Shane R ^a   Smith, K Shafer ^a   Kramer, Peter R ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing; Ocean circulation; Ocean models; Tracers

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DISPERSION; BAROCLINIC; EADY MODEL; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; LAGRANGIAN; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; LARGE-SCALE EDDIES; LATERAL MIXING; LOCAL SCALE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; OFFLINE; PHILLIPS; RELATIVE DISPERSION; SMALL SCALE; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL SAMPLING ERRORS; UNRESOLVED SCALE; UPPER OCEAN; VELOCITY FIELD;

DISPERSIONS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MIXING; VELOCITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURBULENCE; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 80052364714     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4580.1     Document Type: Article

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