The average vertical mixing coefficient for the oceanic thermocline

Yuan-Hui Li; Tsung-Hung Peng; Wallace S. Broecker; H. Cote Ostlund

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v36i3.14905

The average vertical mixing coefficient for the oceanic thermocline

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 36 (1984): Issue 3

By: Yuan-Hui Li, Tsung-Hung Peng, Wallace S. Broecker and H. Cote Ostlund

Open Access

|Jan 1984

Abstract

The new estimate of the average vertical mixing coefficient for the oceanic thermocline, based on all GEOSECS tritium data, is 1.7 ± 0.2 cm² s^-1.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v36i3.14905 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Language: English

Page range: 212 - 217

Submitted on: Nov 23, 1983

Accepted on: Jan 30, 1984

Published on: Jan 1, 1984

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1984 Yuan-Hui Li, Tsung-Hung Peng, Wallace S. Broecker, H. Cote Ostlund, published by Stockholm University Press
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