The response of Southern Ocean eddies to increased midlatitude westerlies: A non-eddy resolving model study

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hofmann, M ^a   Morales Maqueda, M A ^b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COMPENSATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSIVITIES; EDDY ACTIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; MODEL STUDY; OCEAN EDDIES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; VARYING THICKNESS; WIND INTENSIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY COVARIANCE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; PARAMETERIZATION; WESTERLY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79751482641     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045972     Document Type: Article

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