Rates and mechanisms of turbulent dissipation and mixing in the Southern Ocean: Results from the Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2774-2792

  Sheen, K L ^a   Brearley, J A ^a   Naveira Garabato, A C ^a   Smeed, D A ^b   Waterman, S ^c   Ledwell, J R ^d   Meredith, M P ^e   St Laurent, L ^d   Thurnherr, A M ^f   Toole, J M ^d   Watson, A J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; internal wave; Mixing; turbulent dissipation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; INTERNAL WAVES; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; TURBULENT DISSIPATION RATES; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS;

MIXING;

DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; LEE WAVE; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENT FLOW; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84882786471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20217     Document Type: Article

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