Sentences with phrase «small eddies mixing»

Right now, climate models have to approximate many physical processes that turn out to be very important; air flowing over mountain ranges, for example, or small eddies mixing water in the ocean.

It is not diffusive at all; the atmosphere is too large for diffusive mixing or even small eddy mixing to dominate.

Not exact matches

The two - day FAMOS workshop will include sessions on 2017 sea ice highlights and sea ice / ocean predictions, reports of working groups conducting collaborative projects, large - scale arctic climate modeling (ice - ocean, regional coupled, global coupled), small (eddies) and very small (mixing) processes and their representation and / or parameterization in models, and new hypotheses, data sets, intriguing findings, proposals for new experiments and plans for 2018 FAMOS special volume of publications.

Lateral eddy mixing of tracers such as potential temperature and salinity is mainly directed along isopycnals, and has a small effect on the dynamics but is important for water mass properties.