Pathways of Nordic Overflows from climate model scale and eddy resolving simulations

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-84

  Chang, Yeon S ^a   Garraffo, Zulema D ^b   Peters, Hartmut ^c   Özgökmen, Tamay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

AMOC; Climate modeling; Overflows

Indexed keywords

AMOC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE MODELS; COARSER GRIDS; COMPLEX RESPONSE; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOWS; DIMENSIONAL TEMPERATURES; DOMAIN GEOMETRIES; FAROE BANK CHANNELS; GREENLAND; GRID-SPACINGS; HORIZONTAL MODELS; HYBRID COORDINATE MODELS; ICELAND; ICELAND-SCOTLAND RIDGES; MASS TRANSPORTS; MEAN VELOCITIES; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OVERFLOWS; SALINITY FIELDS; SCOTLAND; SEA FLOORS; VOLUME TRANSPORTS;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; HEAVY WATER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLOW OF WATER;

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VELOCITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PERTURBATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DENMARK STRAIT; FAROE BANK CHANNEL; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 64849096261     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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