A thermohaline inverse method for estimating diathermohaline circulation and mixing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2681-2697

  Groeskamp, Sjoerd ^a   Zika, Jan D ^b   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^c   Mcdougall, Trevor J ^d   Mcintosh, Peter C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Conservation equations; Diagnostics; Inverse methods; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Mixing; Models and modeling; Ocean circulation; Streamfunction

Indexed keywords

MIXING;

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; INVERSE METHODS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STREAMFUNCTIONS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

INVERSE ANALYSIS; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS;

EID: 84910024882     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0039.1     Document Type: Article

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