What drives heat transport in the Atlantic: Sensitivity to mechanical energy supply and buoyancy forcing in the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Saenko, Oleg A ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

4255 Oceanography: General: Numerical modeling; 4512 Oceanography: Physical: Currents; 4532 Oceanography: Physical: General circulation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC; HEAT TRANSPORT; MECHANICAL ENERGY SUPPLY;

HEAT TRANSFER;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 11844288902     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020671     Document Type: Article

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