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dc.contributor.authorTziperman, Eli
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-23T00:06:38Z
dc.date.issued1988
dc.identifier.citationTziperman, Eli. 1988. Calculating the time-mean oceanic general circulation and mixing coefficients from hydrographic data. Journal of Physical Oceanography 18(3): 519-525.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-3670en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3415487
dc.description.abstractThe relation between the circulation calculated from averaged hydrographic data (such as the Levitus data), and the actual time average circulation is examined using a CTD dataset which provides both time and space coverage of a region of the Mediterranean Sea. The connection between eddy mixing coefficients calculated from hydrographic data and the eddy fluxes (u′T′) they are intended to parameterize is also considered. An inverse model is used to calculate circulation and mixing coefficients from the time average data. Then, the actual time averaged circulation is estimated by averaging six realizations of the instantaneous velocity field, and mixing coefficients are calculated by directly parameterizing the eddy fluxes of heat and salt. Comparing the results obtained by the different procedures, it is concluded that the horizontal time average circulation can be reliably estimated from averaged and smoothed climatological data, but that it is nearly impossible to obtain physically meaningful mixing coefficient from such data.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEarth and Planetary Sciencesen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Meteorological Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1988)018<0519:CTTMOG>2.0.CO;2en_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/reprints/Tziperman-1988.pdf
dash.licenseMETA_ONLY
dc.titleCalculating the Time-Mean Oceanic General Circulation and Mixing Coefficients from Hydrographic Dataen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Physical Oceanographyen_US
dash.depositing.authorTziperman, Eli
dash.embargo.until10000-01-01
dc.identifier.doi10.1175/1520-0485(1988)018<0519:CTTMOG>2.0.CO;2*
dash.contributor.affiliatedTziperman, Eli


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