Tidal mixing and the meridional overturning circulation from the Last Glacial Maximum

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Mattias Green, J A ^a   Green, Clare L ^b   Bigg, Grant R ^b   Rippeth, Tom P ^a   Scourse, James D ^a   Uehara, Katsuto ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MIXING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODEL; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; DIFFUSIVITIES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIXING ENERGIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; RECOVERY TIME; TIDAL ENERGY; TIDAL MIXING; TIDAL MODELS; VERTICAL MIXING;

TIDAL POWER;

DEEP SEA; DIFFUSIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; TIDAL POWER; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70350003720     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039309     Document Type: Article

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