Effect of subgrid-scale mixing on the evolution of forced submesoscale instabilities

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-63

  Ramachandran, Sanjiv ^a   Tandon, Amit ^a,b   Mahadevan, Amala ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts Dartmouth   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic grid; Smagorinsky; Subgrid dissipation; Subgrid viscosity; Submesoscale

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC GRID; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; NEAR-SURFACE LAYERS; SMAGORINSKY; SUB-GRIDS; SUB-MESOSCALE EDDIES; SUBMESOSCALE; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

ASPECT RATIO; BUDGET CONTROL; BUOYANCY; KINETICS; MIXING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

VISCOSITY;

DENSITY FRONT; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; MONIN-OBUKHOV THEORY; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE WIND; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84876365730     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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