Adjoint-based estimation of eddy-induced tracer mixing parameters in the global ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1186-1206

  Liu, Chuanyu ^a   Köhl, Armin ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Mixing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTERNAL FORCING; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH POTENTIAL; INVERSE ENERGY CASCADES; LAYER THICKNESS; MIXED LAYER; MIXING COEFFICIENT; MIXING LENGTH; MIXING PARAMETERS; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SURFACE DIFFUSIVITY; SURFACE FLUX; TOTAL COST FUNCTION; TROPICAL THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MIXING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DENSITY CURRENT; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE FLUX; THERMOCLINE; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

EID: 84868119514     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0162.1     Document Type: Article

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