The dominant mechanisms of variability in Atlantic ocean heat transport in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2445-2448

  Dong, B W ^a   Sutton, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; TROPICS; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT (OHT);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0035874960     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012531     Document Type: Article

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