Sensitivity of water mass transformation and heat transport to subgridscale mixing in coarse-resolution ocean models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Gnanadesikan, A ^a   Slater, R D ^b   Samuels, B L ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DIFFUSION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING;

CLIMATE MODELS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; LATERAL DIFFUSION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; POLEWARD HEAT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VERTICAL DIFFUSION; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; HEAT BALANCE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WATER MASS;

EID: 0348172340     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018036     Document Type: Article

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