Eastern-boundary contribution to the residual and meridional overturning circulations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2075-2090

  Cessi, Paola ^a   Wolfe, Christopher L ^a   Ludka, Bonnie C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Boundary conditions; Bouyancy; Meridional overturning circulation; Thermocline; Upwelling downwelling; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC; BOUYANCY; BUOYANCY FORCING; COUNTER-ROTATING CELLS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY FLUXES; EDDY TRANSPORTS; EULERIAN; FORCINGS; INDUCED COMPONENT; LINEAR MODEL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZED; RESIDUAL FLOW; SOLID BOUNDARIES; SURFACE WIND STRESS; THERMOCLINE; TOTAL MASS; UPWELLING/DOWNWELLING;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; STREAM FLOW; WIND STRESS;

BUOYANCY;

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUOYANCY; DOWNWELLING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WIND STRESS;

EID: 78049238659     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4426.1     Document Type: Article

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