Labrador Sea convection and subpolar North Atlantic Deep Water export in the SODA assimilation model

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 926-938

  Schott, Friedrich A ^a   Stramma, Lothar ^a   Giese, Benjamin S ^b   Zantopp, Rainer ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Convection; Labrador Sea; Meridional overturning; Mixed layer depth; Newfoundland Basin; North Atlantic; SODA model

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; CONVECTION; LABRADOR SEA; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING; MIXED-LAYER DEPTH; NEWFOUNDLAND BASIN; NORTH ATLANTIC; SODA MODEL;

BATHYMETRY; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OVERTURN; TRACER; WATER FLOW; WATER MASS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 67349153035     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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