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Sanderson & Okubo 1988
Sanderson, B.G. and Okubo, A. (1988). Diffusion by internal waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 93. doi: 10.1029/88JC01483. issn: 0148-0227.

A perturbation analysis of the Lagrangian equations of motion is used to examine the diffusion induced by a random field of internal waves. At second order there is a random field of shearing motion in the horizontal plane. We claculate the single-particle, two-particle, and patch diffusivities that result from this motion. Patch and two-particle diffusivity both increase as scale raised to the power of 4/3 for an internal wave field in which the spectrum of horizontal velocity varies as ω-2. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, Internal and inertial waves, Oceanography, Physical, Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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