Broullón, Espe; Fernández Castro, Bieito; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Clément, Louis; Oltmanns, Marilena; Williams, Richard G. (2026) Isopycnal Stirring and Diapycnal Mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic Inferred from Argo Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 56 (3). doi:10.1175/jpo-d-25-0090.1
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| Authors | Broullón, Espe | Author | |
| Fernández Castro, Bieito | Author | ||
| Naveira Garabato, Alberto C. | Author | ||
| Clément, Louis | Author | ||
| Oltmanns, Marilena | Author | ||
| Williams, Richard G. | Author | ||
| Year | 2026 (March) | Volume | 56 |
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| Plain Text | Broullón, Espe; Fernández Castro, Bieito; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Clément, Louis; Oltmanns, Marilena; Williams, Richard G. (2026) Isopycnal Stirring and Diapycnal Mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic Inferred from Argo Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 56 (3). doi:10.1175/jpo-d-25-0090.1 | ||
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| Groeskamp, S., J. H. LaCasce, T. J. McDougall, and M. Rogé, 2020: Full‐depth global estimates of ocean mesoscale eddy mixing from observations and theory. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL089425, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089425. | |
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| Häkkinen, S., P. B. Rhines, and D. L. Worthen, 2013: Northern North Atlantic sea surface height and ocean heat content variability. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, 3670–3678, https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20268. | |
| Holliday, N. P., and Coauthors, 2020: Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic. Nat. Commun., 11, 585, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14474-y. | |
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