Meridional heat transport determined with expendable bathythermographs-Part I: Error estimates from model and hydrographic data

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1390-1401

  Baringer, Molly O ^a   Garzoli, Silvia L ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS (XBTS); GEOSTROPHIC METHOD; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORT;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUXES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ANNUAL CYCLE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BERING SEA; BERING STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34447649171     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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