Thermohaline structure in the California Current System: Observations and modeling of spice variance

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Todd, Robert E ^a   Rudnick, Daniel L ^b   Mazloff, Matthew R ^b   Cornuelle, Bruce D ^b   Davis, Russ E ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATE ESTIMATION;

ADJOINTS; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER GLIDERS; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; MESOSCALE; MIXED LAYER; PASSIVE TRACERS; SALINITY VARIABILITY; STATE ESTIMATES; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURES; UPPER OCEAN; WATER MASS;

SPICE;

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WATER MASS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84856972063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007589     Document Type: Article

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