Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: Scaling and numerical experiments

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1643-1660

  Vallis, Geoffrey K ^a   Farneti, Riccardo ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Climate theory; Coupled atmosphere ocean models

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CIRCUMPOLAR CHANNELS; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE THEORY; COUPLED ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN MODELS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EXTRATROPICS; HEAT TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MIDLATITUDE ATMOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN GYRES; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PLANETARY ROTATION; ROTATION RATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; WATER VAPOUR;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATION EFFECTS; ROTATION; SUN; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR; WIND POWER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SOLAR RADIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 70350640889     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.498     Document Type: Article

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