Enhanced vertical mixing within mesoscale eddies due to high frequency winds in the South China Sea

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-15

  Cardona, Yuley ^a   Bracco, Annalisa ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency winds; Near inertial waves; Vertical mixing; Vortex Rossby Waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; LAGRANGIAN; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE EDDY FIELDS; MIXED LAYER; NEAR INERTIAL ENERGY; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; RIVER DISCHARGE; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL DISPERSION; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL VELOCITY; VERTICAL VELOCITY PROFILES; WIND FIELD; WIND FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VORTEX FLOW;

VELOCITY;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; BATHYMETRY; HEAT FLUX; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 83455224715     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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