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Exponential model of the seasonal thermocline

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Soviet journal of physical oceanography

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An exponential model of the seasonal thermocline is suggested within the framework of an integral hydrodynamic model of the upper ocean. The seasonal thermocline is discriminated as a boundary layer of finite thickness against the background of an asymptotic boundary layer described by an exponent. A self-similar distribution of the dimensionless temperature versus dimensionless depth is found. Its comparison with the dependence obtained previously (cubic parabola) provides a deviation of 10%. Thus, the exponential model of the seasonal thermodcline describes perfectly the temperature-depth distribution using field data.

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Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov.

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Fel'zenbaum, A.I. Exponential model of the seasonal thermocline. Soviet Journal of Physical Oceanography 3, 75–79 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02198496

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