The WOCE-era 3-D Pacific Ocean circulation and heat budget

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 281-325

  Macdonald, A M ^a   Mecking, S ^b   Robbins, P E ^a   Toole, J M ^a   Johnson, G C ^c   Talley, L ^e   Cook, M ^a   Wijffels, S E ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA FLUX; AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; BOX MODELS; DEEP CELLS; DEEP WATER; DIFFUSIVE PROPERTIES; FLUX DIVERGENCES; HEAT BUDGET; HIGH QUALITY; HYDROGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIME-AVERAGED; VELOCITY FIELD; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL ZONE; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; DEEP WATER; FLUX MEASUREMENT; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPWELLING; WOCE;

EID: 71049191497     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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