Meridional overturning circulation of the deep Pacific estimated assuming the vertical advective-diffusive balance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Endoh, Takahiro ^a   Hibiya, Toshiyuki ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; LOWER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER (LCDW); VERTICAL ADVECTIVE-DIFFUSIVE BALANCE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PYCNOCLINE; SEAFLOOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34547985675     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030027     Document Type: Article

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