Selected recent publications of the Ocean Mixing group
- Schmitt, R.W., J.R. Ledwell, E.T. Montgomery, K.L Polzin and J.M.
Toole, 2005. Enhanced Diapycnal Mixing by Salt Fingers in the
Thermocline of the Tropical Atlantic. Science,
308, (5723),685-688.
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- Nash, J.D., E. Kunze, J.M. Toole and R.W. Schmitt, 2004.
Internal tide reflection and turbulent mixing on the continental slope.
Journal of Physical Oceanography,
34, 1117-1134.
- Polzin, K.L., E. Kunze, J.M. Toole and R.W. Schmitt, 2003.
The partition of small scale energy into internal waves and subinertial
motions. Journal of Physical
Oceanography, 33,
234-248.
- Schmitt,
R. W., and J. R. Ledwell, 2001. Dispersion and diffusion in the deep
ocean. In: Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, John H. Steele,
Steve A. Thorpe, and Karl K. Turekian, Editors, Academic Press, San
Diego; Vol. 2, pp. 726–733.
- St.
Laurent, Louis C., John M. Toole, and Raymond W. Schmitt, 2001.
Buoyancy forcing by turbulence above rough topography in the abyssal
Brazil Basin. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31,
3476–3495.
- Ledwell, J. L., E. T. Montgomery, K. L. Polzin, L. C. St.
Laurent, R. W.
Schmitt and J. M. Toole, 2000. Evidence for enhanced mixing over
rough topography in the abyssal ocean. Nature, 403,
(6766)
179-182.
- Toole, J. M. and T. J. McDougall, 2001. Mixing in the Ocean
Interior. Chapter 5.2 in Ocean
Circulation and Climate, G. Siedler and J. Church, editors,
Academic Press, San Diego, pp 337-356.
- Zhang, J. and R. W. Schmitt, 2000. The impact of salt
fingering on
the thermohaline circulation under mixed boundary conditions. Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 30,
(6), 1223-1231.
- Doherty, K. W., D. E. Frye, S. P. Liberatore, and J. M. Toole,
1999. A
moored profiling instrument. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Technology, 16, 1816-1829.
- St. Laurent, L. and R. W. Schmitt, 1999. The contribution of salt
fingers
to vertical mixing in the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment. Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 29, (7), 1404-1424.
- Zhang, J., R. W. Schmitt, and R. X. Huang, 1999. The
relative influence
of diapycnal mixing and hydrologic forcing on the stability of he
thermohaline
circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29,
(6), 1096-1108.
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