Evaluating austral summer mixed-layer response to surface wave-induced mixing in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Chuan Jiang ^a   Qiao, Fangli ^a   Shu, Qi ^a   Song, Zhenya ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MIXING; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES;

AUSTRAL SUMMERS; K-PROFILE PARAMETERIZATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; UPPER OCEAN;

WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE MODELING; MIXED LAYER; MIXING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUMMER; SURFACE WAVE; TURBULENCE; WAVE FORCE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84862845045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007892     Document Type: Article

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