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Acoustic mapping of mixed layer depth
... The increased SNRs of wideband echo sounders have made it possible to map density stratification in the ocean. Stranne et al. (2017) were able to acoustically image individ- ual thermohaline steps resulting from the ...
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Validation of an ocean shelf model for the prediction of mixed-layer properties in the Mediterranean Sea west of Sardinia
... the mixed-layer depth, the increase in the eddy diffusivity to 7 × 10 −5 m 2 s −1 caused a significant reduction in 1D from ...the mixed layer was always too shallow, it now agrees remarkably ...
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Assessment of mixed-layer height estimation from single-wavelength ceilometer profiles
... Boundary Layer Experiment (CAPABLE) site in Hampton, Virginia and during the 2014 Deriving Informa- tion on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Re- solved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER- ...
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Mixing, heat fluxes and heat content evolution of the Arctic Ocean mixed layer
... decade. However, Polyakov et al. (2008) found that changes in both net precipitation vs. evaporation and river discharge were too small to trigger changes in FWC in the central Arc- tic basin and argued that these ...
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Using dissolved oxygen concentrations to determine mixed layer depths in the Bellingshausen Sea
... layers and temperature inversions in the area of study. Bar- rier layers are thought to be formed by melting sea ice, al- though the mechanisms for the formation and destruction of barrier layers in the Southern Ocean ...
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On the annual cycle of the sea surface temperature and the mixed layer depth in the Gulf of México
... In order to determine the degree of cooling of the mixed layer, as well as its changes in depth, we have made an experiment in which the Ekman pumping velocity is neglected in Equation (20). Figure 10, ...
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Mixed layer depth seasonality within the Coral Sea based on Argo data
... Previous studies incorporating MLD patterns within the Coral Sea have generally either focussed on a small area only [10], or have included the Coral Sea as part of a global study [11,12]. The only study that has ...
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MetUM-GOML1: a near-globally coupled atmosphere–ocean-mixed-layer model
... the eastward propagation of the MJO here within the near- globally coupled MetUM-GOML is consistent with a similar MetUM mixed-layer ocean coupled simulation with coupling only in the Indo-Pacific ...
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Verification of the mixed layer depth in the OceanMAPS operational forecast model for Austral autumn
... well-mixed layer than observed in the mid-latitudes (where ...stratified layer in the Southern Ocean (where ...surface layer, the Chen et ...stratified layer that is more susceptible to ...
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Sea surface temperature and mixed layer depth changes due to cold-air outbreak in the gulf of México
... and mixed layer physics in the equatorial ocean applying a primitive equations model, in which the dynamics of mixed layer was parameterized in terms of the turbulent kinetic energy ...and ...
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The Black Sea Mixed Layer Depth Variability and Its Relation to the Basin Dynamics and Atmospheric Forcing
... the mixed layer depth ...the mixed layer depth in winter are observed in the mesoscale cyclonic eddies and in the center of the sea (20–30 m), the moderate values – on the periphery of the ...
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Pathfinder: applying graph theory to consistent tracking of daytime mixed layer height with backscatter lidar
... well mixed-layer extending up to an alti- tude of 900 m can be distinguished from the radiosonde tem- perature profile (not shown), coinciding with the pathfinder MLH ...
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Heterogeneous distribution of plankton within the mixed layer and its implications for bloom formation in tropical seas
... upper layer. These findings suggest that vertical structures within the mixed layer provide critical seeding stocks that can rapidly exploit nutrient influx during mixing, leading to winter bloom ...
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Description and implementation of a MiXed Layer model (MXL, v1.0) for the dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer in the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy)
... a MiXed Layer model for the dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) and a generic 1-D base model called VERTICO (VERTIcal COlumn) in the Modular Earth Sub- model System (MESSy, Jöckel et ...
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Substantial energy input to the mesopelagic ecosystem from the seasonal mixed-layer pump
... seasonal mixed-layer pump. In the spring the depth of the mixed layer (yellow line) reaches its maximum annual ...sunlit layer, resulting in an export of ...surface mixed ...
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Mixed layer sub-mesoscale parameterization – Part 1: Derivation and assessment
... must be noted that in Eqs. (2a) no closure has been used for the non-linear terms. Without the non-linear terms, Eqs. (2a) formally coincide with those describing mixed layer mesoscales tracer fields ...
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Mixed layer depth variability in the Red Sea
... The MLD can be estimated based on different methods. Fig- ure 2 shows a sample temperature profile collected on 19 January 2015 from the Red Sea (24.9 ◦ N, 35.18 ◦ E), with short-range gradients within the mixed ...
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Wave-turbulence scaling in the ocean mixed layer
... Fig. 10. Profiles of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation (a–c) for a particular wave spectra (d–f). Five successive profiles of taken over one hour are averaged vertically into 1 m bins with the solid black line showing ...
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Sea ice and the ocean mixed layer over the Antarctic shelf seas
... ocean mixed-layer model has been incorpo- rated into the Los Alamos sea ice model CICE to investi- gate regional variations in the surface-driven formation of Antarctic shelf ...m) mixed layers in ...
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Modeling of wave-induced irradiance variability in the upper ocean mixed layer
... 2009). The radiative transfer simulations are carried out for monochromatic light at a wavelength of 490 nm; in this spec- tral range the water itself is very transparent for light (Pope and Fry, 1997). The chlorophyll a ...
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