Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-21-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-21-2019
Research article
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09 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2019

Isoneutral control of effective diapycnal mixing in numerical ocean models with neutral rotated diffusion tensors

Antoine Hochet, Rémi Tailleux, David Ferreira, and Till Kuhlbrodt

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