Optimal surface salinity perturbations of the meridional overturning and heat transport in a global ocean general circulation model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2739-2754

  Sévellec, Florian ^a,d   Huck, Thierry ^a   Jelloul, Mahdi Ben ^a   Grima, Nicolas ^a   Vialard, Jérôme ^b   Weaver, Anthony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c CERFACS   (France)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ASYMPTOTICALLY STABLE; LAGRANGIAN MULTIPLIERS; MAXIMIZATION PROBLEM; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; SURFACE SALINITIES; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SALINITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 65549104696     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3875.1     Document Type: Article

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