Controlling spurious diapycnal mixing in eddy-resolving height-coordinate ocean models - Insights from virtual deliberate tracer release experiments

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 45-46, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-26

  Hill, Chris ^a   Ferreira, David ^a   Campin, Jean Michel ^a   Marshall, John ^a   Abernathey, Ryan ^a   Barrier, Nicolas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Advection; Diapyncnal mixing; Numerical mixing; Ocean modeling; Southern ocean

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CHANNEL CONFIGURATION; DENSITY CONTOURS; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IN-FIELD; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN MODELING; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PASSIVE TRACERS; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ADVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

MIXING;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; ADVECTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EDDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TRACER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84857034731     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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