The dependence of AABW transport in the Atlantic on vertical diffusivity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3739-3742

  Kamenkovich, Igor V ^a   Goodman, Paul J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENSITY BALANCE; NORTH ATLANTIC; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY LAYER;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ANTARTIC BOTTOM WATER TRANSPORT; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

EID: 0034317390     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011675     Document Type: Article

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