Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean

There is an ongoing debate concerning the distribution of eddy stirring across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the nature of its controlling processes. The problem is addressed here by estimating the isentropic eddy diffusivity Kappa from a collection of hydrographic and altimetric obser...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele, Garabato, Alberto C. Naveira, Polzin, K. L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73684
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3736-1956