Diapycnal diffusivity at the upper boundary of the tropical North Atlantic oxygen minimum zone

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Banyte, Donata ^a   Tanhua, Toste ^a   Visbeck, Martin ^a   Wallace, Douglas W R ^b   Karstensen, Johannes ^a   Krahmann, Gerd ^a   Schneider, Anke ^a   Stramma, Lothar ^a   Dengler, Marcus ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; CARTESIAN COORDINATE; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; INTERNAL WAVES; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; LOW LATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PARAMETERIZED; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; UPPER BOUNDARY; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; WAVE MODELING; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84866660534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007762     Document Type: Article

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