Sensitivity of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation to surface buoyancy forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Morrison, Adele K ^a   Hogg, Andrew M ^a   Ward, Marshall L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRESS ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

BUOYANCY FLUXES; BUOYANCY FORCING; DEGLACIATIONS; EKMAN TRANSPORT; FRESHWATER FLUXES; MIDLATITUDES; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; RELATIVE LOCATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STRESS PROFILE; UPWELLING REGION;

BUOYANCY;

BUOYANCY FORCING; DEGLACIATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; ESTUARINE FRONT; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UPWELLING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79960489234     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048031     Document Type: Article

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