Available potential energy and irreversible mixing in the meridional overturning circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3130-3146

  Hughes, Graham O ^a   Hogg, Andrew Mcc ^a   Griffiths, Ross W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCING; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; ENERGY RESERVOIRS; EXTERNAL INPUT; GLOBAL OCEAN; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; STEADY STATE; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; SURFACE WINDS; TURBULENT MIXING;

BUOYANCY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

KINETIC ENERGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; OVERTURN; POTENTIAL ENERGY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84859437872     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4162.1     Document Type: Article

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