Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Naveira Garabato, A C ^a   Ferrari, R ^b   Polzin, K L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING;

ALTIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; BAROTROPIC JET; CONTROLLING PROCESS; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; FERRARI; HOMOGENIZED PROPERTIES; ISENTROPIC; MEAN FLOW; MIXING LENGTH; PARALLEL JETS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THERMOHALINE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; UPPER LAYER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; HYDROGRAPHY; JET; KINEMATICS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPPER OCEAN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80052981502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006818     Document Type: Article

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