Sensitivity of the Atlantic Ocean circulation to a hydraulic overflow parameterisation in a coarse resolution model: Response of the subpolar gyre

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 130-142

  Born, Andreas ^a   Levermann, Anders ^a,b   Mignot, Juliette ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK; HYDRAULICS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; WATER;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC OCEANS; BAROCLINIC; COARSE-RESOLUTION MODELS; COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS; DEEP-WATER FORMATIONS; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATIONS; FRESH WATERS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GREENLAND-SCOTLAND RIDGES; HYDRAULIC CONSTRAINTS; LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PARAMETERISATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACKS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; HYDRAULICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 61449215053     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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