Bottom water formation in the southern Weddell Sea and the influence of submarine ridges: Idealized numerical simulations

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 50-59

  Wang, Q ^a   Danilov, S ^a   Schroter J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bottom water formation; Entrainment; Finite Element Method; Mixing processes; Overflow modeling; Southern Weddell Sea; Topographic influence

Indexed keywords

MIXING; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM WATER FORMATION; ENTRAINMENT; MIXING PROCESSES; OVERFLOW MODELING; SOUTHERN WEDDELL SEA; TOPOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BOTTOM WATER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEEP WATER FORMATION; DENSE WATER; ENTRAINMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUBMARINE RIDGE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 62849085799     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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