Role of the overturning circulation in determining the potential vorticity over the abyssal ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Williams, Richard G ^a   Day, Kate ^a   Roussenov, Vassil ^a   Wood, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep circulation; Hadley Centre Coupled Model; Overturning; Potential vorticity; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; DEEP WATER; OVERTURN; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037110320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001094     Document Type: Article

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