Role of parameterized eddies in the energy budget of the global thermohaline circulation: cabbeling versus restratification

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1894-1901

  Urakawa, L Shogo ^a   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eddies; Energy budget balance; Ocean circulation; Parameterization; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

CABBELING; DIABATIC; DIFFUSION PROCESS; EDDIES; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; ENERGY BUDGET/BALANCE; ENERGY BUDGETS; EQUATION OF STATE; GLOBAL THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY; LAYER THICKNESS; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PARAMETERIZED; PRESSURE DEPENDENCIES; RESTRATIFICATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; VERTICAL MIXING; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

BUDGET CONTROL; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY BUDGET; EQUATION OF STATE; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 78049312765     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4361.1     Document Type: Article

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