Friction and diapycnal mixing at a slope: Boundary control of potential vorticity

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1509-1523

  Benthuysen, Jessica ^a,b   Thomas, Leif N ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal circulation; Friction; Mixing; Potential vorticity; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY CONTROLS; BUOYANCY FLUXES; CRITICAL VALUE; CURRENT SPEED; DIABATIC; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DOWNSLOPE; EKMAN FLOW; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; INITIAL SPEED; KELVIN WAVE PROPAGATION; KEY PARAMETERS; NO-SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RESTRATIFICATION; SCALINGS; SPEED RATIO; STEADY STATE; STRATIFIED OCEAN; TIME-DEPENDENT PROBLEM; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TURBULENT CLOSURE SCHEMES;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; FRICTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; TRIBOLOGY; VORTICITY;

MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN LAYER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CURRENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84868132128     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0130.1     Document Type: Article

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