Eddy diffusivity derived from drifter data for dispersion model applications

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1381-1398

  De Dominicis, Michela ^a   Leuzzi, Giovanni ^b   Monti, Paolo ^b   Pinardi, Nadia ^c   Poulain, Pierre Marie ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusivity; Drifter; Lagrangian models; Lagrangian statistics; Marine turbulence

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELS; CURRENT FIELDS; DISPERSION MODELS; DISPERSION PROCESS; DRIFTER; DRIFTER DATUM; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EULERIAN; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; LAGRANGIAN STATISTICS; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; LARGE DATABASE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN TRANSPORTS; PARTICLE DISPLACEMENT; SIMULATED TRAJECTORIES; SPACE RESOLUTIONS; STATISTICAL QUANTITY; SUBGRID SCALE; TRAJECTORY MODELS;

DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ADVECTION; DATA SET; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; RESOLUTION; STOCHASTICITY; TURBULENCE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84871010390     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0564-2     Document Type: Article

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