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On the Eddy Isopycnal Thickness Diffusivity of the Gent-McWilliams Subgrid Mixing Parameterization

On the Eddy Isopycnal Thickness Diffusivity of the Gent-McWilliams Subgrid Mixing Parameterization

Nakamura, M.; Chao, Y.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/17599
Date: 1999-06-10
Citation: Journal of Climate
U.S.A.

Abstract:

Output of an eddy-resolving model of the North Atlantic Ocean is used to diagnose the eddy thickness diffusivity coefficient, K, defined by Gent and McWilliams (1990) in their quasi-adiabatic parameterization for transports by mesoscale eddies.

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