Seasonality of the ventilation of the tropical Atlantic thermocline in an ocean general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Lazar, Alban ^a   Inui, Tomoko ^c   Malanotte Rizzoli, Paola ^c   Busalacchi, Antonio J ^b   Wang, Liping ^a   Murtugudde, Ragu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixed layer; STC; Subduction; Thermocline; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASONALITY; SUBDUCTION; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

(TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037104892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000667     Document Type: Article

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