The LatMix Summer Campaign: Submesoscale Stirring in the Upper Ocean

Lateral stirring is a basic oceanographic phenomenon affecting the distribution of physical, chemical, and biological fields. Eddy stirring at scales on the order of 100 km (the mesoscale) is fairly well understood and explicitly represented in modern eddy-resolving numerical models of global ocean...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Callies, Joern, Ferrari, Raffaele
Other Authors: Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101395
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