Ocean heat uptake in transient climate change: Mechanisms and uncertainty due to subgrid-scale eddy mixing

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 3344-3356

  Huang, Boyin ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a   Sokolov, Andrei P ^a   Kamenkovich, Igor V ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX;

ADVECTION; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE (OHU);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 0942269683     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3344:OHUITC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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