Volume, heat, and freshwater transports of the global ocean circulation 1993-2000, estimated from a general circulation model constrained by World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Stammer, D ^a   Wunsch, C ^b   Giering, R ^c   Eckert, C ^b   Heimbach, P ^b   Marotzke, J ^d   Adcroft, A ^b   Hill, C N ^b   Marshall, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FastOpt GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Heat transport; Ocean circulation; Ocean reanalysis; Surface fluxes

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; VOLUME CHANGE;

EID: 0037523553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001115     Document Type: Article

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