Sensitivity of the ocean state to lee wave-driven mixing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 900-921

  Melet, Angélique ^a   Hallberg, Robert ^a,b   Legg, Sonya ^a   Nikurashin, Maxim ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC TIDES; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS LABORATORIES; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTEGRATED CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; PHYSICALLY BASED;

CLIMATE MODELS; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; TIDES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

BAROTROPIC TIDE; BREAKING WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTERNAL WAVE; LEE WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; OVERTURN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFICATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84896862889     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-072.1     Document Type: Article

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