The Baltic Sea Tracer Release Experiment: 1. Mixing rates

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Holtermann, Peter L ^a   Umlauf, Lars ^a   Tanhua, Toste ^b   Schmale, Oliver ^a   Rehder, Gregor ^a   Waniek, Joanna J ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; INERT GASES;

BALTIC SEA; DEEP WATER; DEEP-WATER RENEWALS; DIFFUSIVITIES; E-FOLDING; KEY PROCESS; LATERAL BOUNDARY; LATERAL MIXING; MIXING PROCESS; MIXING RATES; OPEN OCEAN; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; STAGNATION PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TRACER EXPERIMENT; TRACER GAS; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY; VERTICAL MIXING;

MIXING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DEEP WATER; DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOMOGENEITY; TRACER; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GOTLAND BASIN;

EID: 84856558623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007439     Document Type: Article

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