Dynamics of down welling in an eddy-resolving convective basin

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2341-2347

  Spall, Michael A ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary layer; Climate models; Convection; Eddies; Thermohaline circulation; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY; CLIMATE MODEL; CONVECTION; DOWN-WELLING; EDDIES; EDDY FLUXES; EDDY FORMATION; LABRADOR SEA; PARAMETERIZATIONS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEANS; VISCOUS BOUNDARY LAYERS; VORTICITY BALANCE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; VORTICITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADIABATIC PROCESS; CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOWNWELLING; HEAT FLUX; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VORTICITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; LOFOTEN BASIN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77958572856     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4465.1     Document Type: Article

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