Where do ocean eddy heat fluxes matter?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C6, 1999, Pages 13235-13249

  Wunsch, Carl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CONVECTION;

EID: 0032695288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900062     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Böning, C. W., and F. O. Bryan, Large-scale transport processes in high-resolution models, in The Warmwatersphere of the North Atlantic Ocean, edited by W. Krauss, pp. 91-128. Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin, 1996.
2. Box, G. E. P., and G. M. Jenkins, Time Series Analysis, Forecasting and Control, 575 pp., Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1978.
3. Bryan, K., Poleward buoyancy transport in the ocean and mesoscale eddies. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 16, 927-933, 1986.
4. Bryden, H. L., Poleward heat flux and conversion of potential energy in Drake Passage, J. Mar. Res., 37, 1-22, 1979.
5. Bryden, H. L., Sources of eddy energy in the Gulf Stream recirculation region, J. Mar. Res., 40, 1047-1068, 1982.
6. Bryden, H. L., and E. C. Brady, Eddy momentum and heat fluxes and their effects on the circulation of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, J. Mar. Res., 47, 55-79, 1989.
7. Bryden, H. L., and R. A. Heath, Energetic eddies at the northern edge of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the southwest Pacific, Progr. Oceanogr., 14, 65-87, 1985.
8. Delworth, T. L., North Atlantic interannual variability in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, J. Clim.,9, 2356-2375, 1997.
9. de Szoeke, R. A., and M. D. Levine, The advective flux of heat by mean geostrophic motions in the Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Res., 28, 1057-1085, 1981.
10. Dickson, R. R., Flow statistics from long-term current-meter moorings. The global data-set in January 1989. World Ocean Circulation Experiment, 35 pp. plus numerous tables, Publ. WCRP-30, WMO/TD 337, World Clim. Res. Program, Geneva, 1981.
11. Eriksen, C. C., Moored observations of deep low-frequency motions in the Central Pacific Ocean: vertical structure and interpretation as equatorial waves, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 15, 1085-1113, 1985.
12. Fanning, A. F., and A. J. Weaver, A horizontal resolution and parameter sensitivity study of heat transport in an idealized coupled climate model. J. Clim., 10, 2466-2478, 1997.
13. Fu, L.-L., T. Keffer, P. Niiler, and C. Wunsch, Observations of mesoscale variability in the western North Atlantic: A comparative study, J. Mar. Res., 40, 809-848, 1982.
14. Fukumori, I., F. Martel and C. Wunsch, The hydrography of the North Atlantic in the early 1980's. An atlas. Prog. Oceanogr., 27, 1-110, 1991.
15. Gill, A. E., J. S. A. Green, and A. J. Simmons, Energy partition in the large-scale ocean circulation and the production of mid-ocean eddies. Deep-Sea Res., 21, 499-528, 1974.
16. Gordon, A. L., and W. B. Owens, Polar oceans. Rev. Geophys.,25, 227-233, 1987.
17. Hogg, N. G., Mooring motion corrections revisited. J. Atmos. Oceanic. Techno., 8, 289-295, 1991.
18. Holloway, G., Eddies, waves, circulation and mixing: statistical geofluid mechanics. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 18, 91-147, 1986.
19. Holton, J., The Dynamic Meteorology of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere, 218 pp., Am. Meteor. Soc., Boston, 1975.
20. Holton, J., The stratosphere and its links to the troposphere, in Large-Scale Dynamical Processes in the Atmosphere, edited by B. J. Hoskins and R. P. Pearce, pp. 277-303, Academic, London, 1983.
21. Isemer, H. J. Willebrand and L. Hasse, Fine adjustment of large scale air-sea energy flux parameterizations by direct estimates of ocean heat transport. J. Clim., 2, 1173-1184, 1989.
22. Jenkins, G. M. and D. G. Watts, Spectral Analysis and Its Applications, 525 pp.,. Holden-Day, San Francisco, 1968.
23. Levitus, S. and T. P. Boyer. World Ocean Atlas 1994, vol. 4: Temperature, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 4, U. S. Gov. Print. Off., Washington D. C., 117 pp., 1994.
24. Ljung, L., System Identification Toolbox: Manual. The Mathworks, Sherborn, Mass, 1995.
25. Longuet-Higgins, M. S., On group velocity and energy flux in planetary wave motions. Deep-Sea Res., 11 , 35-42, 1964.
26. Macdonald, A. and C. Wunsch, The global ocean circulation and heat flux. Nature, 382, 436-439, 1996.
27. Marshall, J., and G. Shutts, A note on rotational and divergent eddy fluxes. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 1677-1680, 1981.
28. MODE Group, The, The Mid-ocean dynamics experiment, Deep-Sea Res., 25, 859-910, 1978.
29. Müller, T. J., and G. Siedler, Multi-year current time series in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. J. Mar. Res., 50, 63-98, 1992.
30. Nowlin, W. D., Jr. and J. M. Klinck, The physics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Rev. Geophys., 24, 469-492, 1986.
31. Pedlosky, J., Ocean Circulation Theory, 453 pp., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
32. Percival, D. B. and A. T. Walden, Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications. Multitaper and Conventional Univariate Techniques, 583 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1993.
33. Philander, S. G., El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation, 289 pp., Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1990.
34. Qiao, L. and R. H. Weisberg, Tropical instability wave energetics: observations from the tropical instability wave experiment, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 345-360, 1998.
35. Richman, J., C. Wunsch and N. Hogg, Space and time scales of meso-scale motion in the western North Atlantic. Rev. Geophys., 15, 385-420, 1977.
36. Robinson, A. R. (ed.), Eddies in Marine Science, 609 pp., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983.
37. Sciremammano, F., Jr., The nature of the poleward heat flux due to low-frequency current fluctuations in Drake Passage. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 843-852, 1980.
38. Stammer, D., Global characteristics of ocean variability from regional TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter measurements. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1743-1769, 1997.
39. Stammer, D., On eddy characteristics, eddy mixing and mean flow properties. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 727-739, 1998.
40. Stammer, D. and C. Wunsch, Temporal changes in eddy energy of the oceans. Deep-Sea Res., 46,77-108, 1999.
41. Weisberg, R. H. and T. J. Weingartner, Instability waves in the equatorial Atlantic. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 18, 1641-1657, 1988.
42. Wunsch, C., Low frequency variability of the sea, in Evolution of Physical Oceanography: Scientific Surveys in Honor of Henry Stommel, edited by B. A. Warren and C. Wunsch, pp. 342-374, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981.
43. Wunsch, C., The vertical partition of horizontal kinetic energy and the spectrum of global variability. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 1770-1794, 1997.
44. Wunsch, C. and D. Stammer, Satellite altimetry, the marine geoid and the oceanic general circulation. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 26, 219-254, 1998.