Atlantic deep circulation controlled by heating in the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1873-1876

  Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a   Suginohara, Nobuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; SURFACE WATERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

DEEP OCEAN; HIGH LATITUDES; SEA SURFACES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WIND-INDUCED UPWELLING;

BUOYANCY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND INDUCED UPWELLING;

DEEP WATER; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032708871     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900420     Document Type: Article

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