Diagnostics of diapycnal diffusion in z-level ocean models. Part II: 3-Dimensional OGCM

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 45-46, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-36

  Getzlaff, Julia ^a   Nurser, George ^b   Oschlies, Andreas ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diapycnal diffusion; Numerical mixing; Z Level models

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSION; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIFFUSIVITIES; DYE TRACER; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN MODEL; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; ROBUST METHODS; SPATIAL SAMPLING; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TRACER DISPERSION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ADVECTION; EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

DIFFUSION;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; DISPERSION; GYRE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRACER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84857030439     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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