Float-derived isopycnal diffusivities in the DIMES experiment

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 764-780

  LaCasce, Joe H ^a   Ferrari, R ^b   Marshall, J ^b   Tulloch, R ^b   Balwada, D ^c   Speer, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATERAL DIFFUSIVITY; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MERIDIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; NEUTRAL DENSITY SURFACES;

EXPERIMENTS; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DIFFUSION;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOATING BODY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MIXING RATIO; MODEL TEST; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DRAKE PASSAGE;

EID: 84893720659     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0175.1     Document Type: Article

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