Towards the impact of eddies on the response of the Southern Ocean to climate change

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 150-165

  Viebahn, Jan ^a   Eden, Carsten ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Climate change; Eddy parameterisations; Meridional overturning circulation; Meso scale eddies; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MESOSCALE EDDY; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CIRCULATION MODELING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954214122     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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