Isoneutral control of effective diapycnal mixing in numerical ocean models with neutral rotated diffusion tensors

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Hochet, Antoine, Tailleux, Rémi, Ferreira, David, Kuhlbrodt, Till
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Saenz; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-21-2019; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00003594; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00003552/os-15-21-2019.pdf; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/15/21/2019/os-15-21-2019.pdf

It is well known that there is an infinite number of ways of constructing a globally defined density variable for the ocean, with each possible density variable having, a priori, its own distinct diapycnal diffusivity. Because no globally defined density variable can be exactly neutral, numerical oc...