Sensitivity of simulated salinity in a three-dimensional ocean model to upper ocean transport of salt from sea-ice formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1323-1326

  Duffy, P B ^a   Caldeira, K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN MODEL; SEA ICE FORMATIONS;

ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

IMMEDIATE DEPTH SALINITY; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA ICE FORMATION; SIMULATED SALINITY;

FORMATION; MODEL; SALINITY; SEA ICE; TRANSPORT PROCESSES;

EID: 0031171341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01294     Document Type: Article

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