Time-dependent adjustment in a simple model of the mid-depth meridional overturning cell

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1009-1025

  Samelson, R M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meridional overturning circulation; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DIABATIC; DIABATIC PROCESS; EDDY FLUXES; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; FLUX PARAMETERIZATION; MERIDIONAL FLUXES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CELL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NET GAIN; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PARAMETER VALUES; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; STEADY SOLUTION; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT EQUATIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS; TIME-SCALES; WARM WATER;

TIME MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DIABATIC PROCESS; EKMAN LAYER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANETARY WAVE; THERMOCLINE; WARM WATER; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79959602685     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4562.1     Document Type: Article

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