Estimates of ocean macroturbulence: Structure function and spectral slope from argo profiling floats

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1773-1793

  McCaffrey, Katherine Lynn ^a,e   Fox Kemper, Baylor ^b,c   Forget, Gael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; POTENTIAL DENSITY; PROFILING FLOAT; SALINITY VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL SLOPES; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; WAVENUMBER SPECTRA;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

ARGO; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE; WAVE SPECTRUM;

EID: 84942788013     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0023.1     Document Type: Article

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