Seasonal and regional variability of upper ocean diapycnal heat flux in the Atlantic cold tongue

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-74

  Hummels, Rebecca ^a   Dengler, Marcus ^a   Bourlès, Bernard ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b CRHOB ^*  (Benin)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; MERIDIONAL VELOCITIES; MICROSTRUCTURE OBSERVATION; MIXING INTENSITY; SEASONAL AND REGIONAL VARIABILITIES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES;

MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; STREAM FLOW;

HEAT FLUX;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DATA SET; DISSIPATION; FROUDE NUMBER; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; MIXING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE; TURBULENT FLOW; UPPER OCEAN; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84875494478     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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