Estimating suppression of eddy mixing by mean flows

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1566-1576

  Klocker, Andreas ^a,c   Ferrari, Raffaele ^a   Lacasce, Joseph H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Dispersion; Eddies; Mesoscale processes; Mixing; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DRAKE PASSAGE; EDDIES; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY MIXING; LATERAL DIFFUSIVITY; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MIXING LENGTH; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS; STRONG CURRENTS; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL VARIATION; ZERO-CROSSINGS;

DIFFUSION; DISPERSION (WAVES); MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY;

ESTIMATION;

DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; DISPERSION; FLOW VELOCITY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TRACER; TURBULENCE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAKE PASSAGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84868120630     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0205.1     Document Type: Article

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