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- adjective At
right angles to the localisopycnal surface
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A third possibility, which challenges physical oceanographers, is that diapycnal mixing in ocean circulation models exceeds the rate of mixing in the real ocean, diminishing the model pCO2 sensitivity to biological carbon uptake.
Ice Age CO2 Cycles: Archer et al [2000] « Climate Audit 2005
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Perhaps this is an artifact of excessive diapycnal diffusion in the z-coordinate circulation model.
Ice Age CO2 Cycles: Archer et al [2000] « Climate Audit 2005
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In addition, the amount of diapycnal mixing, which is used for numerical stability in this class of ocean models, will also be reduced as the grid spacing becomes smaller.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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