The southern ocean overturning: Parameterized versus permitted eddies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1634-1651

  Spence, Paul ^a   Saenko, Oleg A ^b   Eby, Michael ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; DEEP WATER; EDDY EFFECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INDUCED COMPONENT; MASS FLUX; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZED; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; TRANSFORMATION RATES; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY;

ATMOSPHERICS; BATHYMETRY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67949102112     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4120.1     Document Type: Article

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