Global ocean meridional overturning

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2550-2562

  Lumpkin, Rick ^a   Speer, Kevin ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

AIR-SEA FLUX; DIRECT CURRENT MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 35048855210     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3130.1     Document Type: Article

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