Estimating mixing rates from seismic images of oceanic structure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Sheen, K L ^a   White, N J ^a   Hobbs, R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

finestructure; oceanography; seismic

Indexed keywords

MIXING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FINE STRUCTURES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SEISMIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION IMAGING; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 80455143094     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040106     Document Type: Article

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