Deep intense vertical mixing in the Bussol' Strait

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Yagi, Masahiro ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

DEEP MIXING; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIURNAL PERIOD; MEAN FLOW; OKHOTSK SEA; POTENTIAL DENSITY; SEMI-DIURNAL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TIDAL CURRENTS; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; TWO-LAYERED STRUCTURES; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; DIFFUSIVITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; TIDAL CURRENT; TOPOGRAPHY; TRAPPED WAVE; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 84855882688     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050349     Document Type: Article

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