A new climatology of air-sea density fluxes and surface water mass transformation rates constrained by WOCE

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1432-1447

  Howe, Nicola ^a   Czaja, Arnaud ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DENSITY FLUXES; DRAKE PASSAGE; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSFORMATION RATES; TWO-REGIME; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

SURFACE WATERS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; HEAT FLUX; HYDROGRAPHY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WATER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 67949114295     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO4025.1     Document Type: Article

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