Rapid changes in mixed layer stratification driven by submesoscale instabilities and winds
Submesoscale eddies generated by baroclinic instability of upper ocean fronts lead to rapid restratification of the mixed layer on a time scale of days. This restratification can be opposed by a down-front wind stress (acting in the direction of the geostrophic velocity) that drives a surface Ekman...
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American Geophysical Union,
2011-01-13T22:04:45Z.
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