Parameterization of particle transport at submesoscales in the Gulf Stream region using Lagrangian subgridscale models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 31-49

  Haza, Angelique C ^a   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a   Griffa, Annalisa ^a,b   Garraffo, Zulema D ^c   Piterbarg, Leonid ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian stochastic models; Relative dispersion; Submesoscale

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FLOW INSTABILITIES; GULF STREAM REGION; HYBRID APPROACH; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE FEATURES; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN PROCESS; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; RELATIVE DISPERSION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SUB-GRID SCALE MODELS; SUBGRID SCALE; SUBMESOSCALE;

DISPERSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL SPILLS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

FORECASTING METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84455194516     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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