A new observationally motivated Richardson number based mixing parametrization for oceanic mesoscale flow

Authors :: Stuart C. Painter
Ekaterina Popova
Meric Srokosz
Angelika H. H. Renner
Alexander Forryan
Adrian Martin
Source :: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 118:1405-1419
Publication Year :: 2013
Publisher :: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2013.
Abstract: Ocean models require subgrid-scale parametrizations of vertical mixing expressed in terms of a quantity that is easily diagnosable from model output, such as the Richardson number. To date parametrizing mixing for low (

Subjects :: Richardson number
Meteorology
Turbulence
Mesoscale meteorology
Geophysics
Oceanography
Bulk Richardson number
Physics::Geophysics
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Eddy
Space and Planetary Science
Geochemistry and Petrology
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Shear flow
Parametrization
Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Mixing (physics)
Geology

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