Diagnostics of isopycnal mixing in a circumpolar channel

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-16

  Abernathey, Ryan ^a   Ferreira, David ^b   Klocker, Andreas ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d The Australian Research Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Eddy diffusivity; Isopycnal mixing; Mesoscale eddies

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CIRCUMPOLAR CHANNELS; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES; MESOSCALE EDDY; PASSIVE TRACERS; TRANSFER COEFFICIENT;

BUOYANCY; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

DIFFUSION;

BUOYANCY; CIRCULATION MODELING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84883225014     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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