The Baltic Sea Tracer Release Experiment: 2. Mixing processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Holtermann, Peter L ^a   Umlauf, Lars ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; EXPERIMENTS; TIDES; TURBULENCE;

BALTIC SEA; DEEP WATER; DISSIPATION RATES; ENERGY SOURCE; INTERNAL TIDES; KEY PROCESS; MICROSTRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS; MIXING PROCESS; NEAR-INERTIAL WAVES; RELEASE EXPERIMENTS; RESTRATIFICATION; STRATIFIED BASIN; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES; TURBULENT BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYERS; WIND EVENTS; WIND FORCING;

MIXING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DEEP WATER; DISSIPATION; INTERNAL TIDE; MICROSTRUCTURE; MIXING; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACER; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84905332254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007445     Document Type: Article

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