Wind-driven submesoscale subduction at the north Pacific subtropical front

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5333-5352

  Hosegood, P J ^a   Gregg, M C ^b   Alford, M H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

frontogenesis; intrusions; subduction; submesoscale

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER; STORMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; FRONTOGENESIS; INTRUSIONS; SUBDUCTION; SUBMESOSCALE; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; SYMMETRIC INSTABILITIES; VERTICAL CIRCULATION;

BUOYANCY;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOYANCY; COOLING; CYCLONE; FRONTAL FEATURE; FRONTOGENESIS; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PYCNOCLINE; RICHARDSON NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MIXING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84890305180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20385     Document Type: Article

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