Spatial and temporal variability of global ocean mixing inferred from Argo profiles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Whalen, C B ^a   Talley, L D ^a   MacKinnon, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MIXING;

ARGO FLOAT; DIRECT MEASUREMENT METHOD; DISSIPATION RATES; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH LATITUDES; OCEAN MIXING; OCEAN PROCESS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZED; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SMALL SCALE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STRAIN INFORMATION; UPPER OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARGO; DISSIPATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXING; OVERTURN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER MASS;

EID: 84867206643     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053196     Document Type: Article

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