Global patterns of mesoscale eddy properties and diffusivities

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1030-1046

  Klocker, Andreas ^a,b   Abernathey, Ryan ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; MEAN FLOW PROPERTIES; MIXING-LENGTH FORMULATIONS; OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; PROGNOSTIC EQUATIONS; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; TRACER SIMULATIONS;

KINETICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

DIFFUSION;

CLIMATE MODELING; DIFFUSIVITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; TRACER; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84896837416     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-0159.1     Document Type: Article

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