Heat transport through diffusive interfaces

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2466-2470

  Flanagan, Jason D ^a   Lefler, Angela S ^a   Radko, Timour ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion and mixing processes; Oceanography; physical; turbulence

Indexed keywords

LARGE DENSITY RATIO; MIXING PROCESS; PARAMETER RANGE; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PHYSICAL; RIGID BOUNDARIES; THERMOHALINE STAIRCASE; VERTICAL FLUXES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

HEAT TRANSFER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIFFUSION; HEAT BALANCE; HEAT FLUX; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84879958653     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50440     Document Type: Article

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