A simple dynamical model of the warm-water branch of the middepth meridional overturning cell

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1216-1230

  Samelson, R M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED ELEMENT; DIABATIC; DIABATIC FORCING; DIABATIC PROCESS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EDDY FLUXES; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CELL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; SUBPOLAR GYRES; WARM WATER; WIND FORCING;

ATMOSPHERICS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DISSIPATION; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; THERMOCLINE; WARM WATER;

EID: 67649908318     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4081.1     Document Type: Article

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