Diagnostics of isopycnal mixing in a circumpolar channel

• Published in: Ocean Modelling
• Main Authors: Abernathey, Ryan, Ferreira, David, Klocker, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Keywords: Antarctic Circumpolar Currents; Circumpolar channels; Eddy Diffusivities; Effective diffusivities; Lagrangian particles; Mesoscale eddy; Passive tracers; Transfer coefficient; Buoyancy; Mixing; Ocean currents; Diffusion; circulation modeling; ci Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Eddy diffusivity; Isopycnal mixing; Mesoscale eddies; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/74732; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.07.004; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/74732/5/f5625xPUB4275_2013.pdf.jpg; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/74732/7/01_Abernathey_Diagnostics_of_isopycnal_2013.pdf.jpg

Mesoscale eddies mix tracers along isopycnals and horizontally at the sea surface. This paper compares different methods of diagnosing eddy mixing rates in an idealized, eddy-resolving model of a channel flow meant to resemble the Antarctic Circumpolar Cu