What governs the North Atlantic salinity maximum in a global GCM?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Qu, Tangdong ^a   Gao, Shan ^b   Fukumori, Ichiro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS;

FUTURE OBSERVATIONS; INTEGRATION TIME; MIXED LAYER; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODELING; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SMALL-SCALE PROCESS; SURFACE FLUX; SURFACE FORCING; OCEAN PROCESS; SALINITY BUDGE; SALINITY MAXIMUM;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MIXED LAYER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79953840341     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046757     Document Type: Article

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