Finescale parameterizations of turbulent dissipation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1383-1419

  Polzin, Kurt L ^a   Naveira Garabato, Alberto C ^b   Huussen, Tycho N ^c   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^d   Waterman, Stephanie ^e,f,g  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

mixing parameterizations

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

DIAPYCNAL MIXING; FINE-SCALE; INTERNAL WAVE BREAKING; INTERNAL WAVES; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; MIXING PARAMETERIZATIONS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

DISSIPATION; INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 84900101183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC008979     Document Type: Article

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