Comparison between vertical shear mixing and surface wave-induced mixing in the extratropical ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Qiao, Fangli ^a   Huang, Chuan Jiang ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES;

EXTRATROPICAL OCEAN; EXTRATROPICS; MEAN CURRENTS; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL THERMOCLINE; SHEAR EFFECT; SHEAR INSTABILITY; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE; UPPER OCEAN; VELOCITY SHEAR; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL SHEAR;

SHEAR FLOW;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MIXED LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE WAVE; THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84862567767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007930     Document Type: Article

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