Nonlocal fluxes and Stokes drift effects in the K-profile parameterization

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 104-115

  Smyth, William D ^a   Skyllingstad, Eric D ^a   Crawford, Gregory B ^b   Wijesekera, Hemantha ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

K profile parameterization; KPP; Mixed layer; Ocean modeling; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944231958     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-002-0012-9     Document Type: Article

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