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- Title
Estimates of the lateral eddy diffusivity in the Indian Ocean as derived from drifter data.
- Authors
Zhurbas, V.; Lyzhkov, D.; Kuzmina, N.
- Abstract
The Global Drifter Program data set is applied to develop 2° × 2° bin estimates of the lateral eddy diffusivity K in the Indian Ocean (IO) by means of a modification of the Davis approach. The calculations were performed relative to the seasonal change in the mean currents, which is especially important in the case of monsoon-driven circulation in the IO. Estimates of K were found to be below 1 × 10 m/s almost every-where in the IO. The spatial variations of K were analyzed in relation to the instabilities of the ocean circulation.
- Subjects
INDIAN Ocean; EDDIES; THERMAL diffusivity; DRIFT boats; SPATIAL variation; OCEAN circulation
- Publication
Oceanology (00014370), 2014, Vol 54, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
0001-4370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0001437014030163