Regional and global effects of southern Ocean constraints in a global model

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 155-168

  Schodlok, Michael P ^a,b   Wenzel, Manfred ^a   Schröter, Jens G ^a   Hellmer, Hartmut H ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint method; Global ocean; Numerical modelling; Ross Sea; State estimation; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN;

ADJOINT METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUMERICAL MODELLING; ROSS SEA; WEDDELL SEA;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ADJOINT METHOD; BOTTOM WATER; CIRCULATION MODELING; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYDROGRAPH; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; THROUGHFLOW; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 55849101488     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-008-0143-8     Document Type: Article

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