Recent changes in the North Atlantic circulation simulated with eddy-permitting and eddy-resolving ocean models

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 226-239

  Marsh, Robert ^a   de Cuevas, Beverly A ^a   Coward, Andrew C ^a   Jacquin, Julien ^b   Hirschi, Joel J M ^a   Aksenov, Yevgeny ^a   Nurser, A J George ^a   Josey, Simon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

Author keywords

Eddy permitting; Eddy resolving; Meridional heat transport; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

BASIN-SCALE CIRCULATIONS; DATA SETS; DENSE WATERS; EDDY-PERMITTING; EDDY-RESOLVING; HEAT TRANSPORTS; INTER COMPARISONS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; MID-LATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORTS; OCEAN MODELS; RE-ANALYSIS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; SATELLITE DATUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SURFACE SALINITIES; WORLD OCEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CIRCULATION MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; EDDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 63349085787     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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