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Vertical Mixing
The vertical mixing parameterization was the level 2.5 turbulence
closure scheme of Mellor and Yamada (1982) with the extensions by
Galperin et al (1988). An important feature of these extensions
include a length-scale limitation that
prevents the mixing length from becoming too large during strongly stratified
conditions.
The minimum ``background mixing'' value, below which the eddy viscosity
never falls, was set to 
m
s
. This value is
comparable to the value of vertical mixing observed by Geyer and
Ledwell (1994) from a dye experiment near the future outfall site.
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