Lateral mixing in the equatorial Pacific: The importance of inertial instability

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Sep 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30qoce3r&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 17, pp. OCE 3-1, CiteID 1888, DOI 10.1029/2003GL017768

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Oceanography: General: Equatorial Oceanography, Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, Diffusion, And Mixing Processes, Oceanography: General: Numerical Modeling, Oceanography: Physical: Fine Structure And Microstructure

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Mixing in the ocean plays a key role in the ocean's dynamics and thermodynamics and how the ocean interacts with the atmosphere. Here we focus on lateral mixing in the equatorial ocean, and in particular the part played by inertial instability. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the instability in promoting mixing in the equatorial thermocline, that is sufficient to affect the large scale structure of the equatorial ocean, and which rectifies problems in existing ocean models. The spatial and temporal variability of the process is likely to impinge on interannual variations of the ocean and El Niño.

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