Diapycnal diffusivities from a tracer release experiment in the deep sea, integrated over 13 years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Rye, Craig D ^a   Messias, Marie Jose ^a   Ledwell, James R ^b   Watson, Andrew J ^a   Brousseau, Andrew ^a   King, Brian A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DEEP SEA; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DEEP SEA; DIFFUSIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PLUME; STABILIZATION; SURVEY; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL BASIN;

EID: 84857258940     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050294     Document Type: Article

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