The role of mesoscale eddies in the rectification of the Southern ocean response to climate change

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1539-1557

  Farneti, Riccardo ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^b   Rosati, Anthony J ^b   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Zeng, Fanrong ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eddies; Forcing; Meridional overturning circulation; Mesoscale processes; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

EDDIES; FORCING; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MESOSCALE PROCESS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77958084307     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4353.1     Document Type: Article

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