Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Lévy, Marina ^a   Ferrari, Raffaele ^b   Franks, Peter J S ^c   Martin, Adrian P ^d   Rivière, Pascal ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; CLASSES OF MOTION; EUPHOTIC LAYERS; EUPHOTIC ZONE; EXPORT PRODUCTION; INTERNAL WAVES; MESOSCALE; MICRO-SCALES; NONLINEAR INSTABILITY; OCEAN SURFACES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPACE SCALE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TIME-SCALES; TURBULENT MOTION; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOSCALE EDDY; ORGANIC CARBON; PATCHINESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAMPLING; SEA SURFACE; TURBULENCE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 84864479911     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052756     Document Type: Article

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