Subduction over the Southern Indian Ocean in a high-resolution atmosphere-ocean coupled model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3830-3849

  Lee, Mei Man ^a   George Nurser, A J ^a   Stevens, I ^b   Sallée, Jean Baptiste ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Currents; Eddies; Ekman pumping transport; Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

AGULHAS CURRENT; COUPLED MODELS; EDDIES; EDDY-PERMITTING MODEL; EKMAN FLOW; EKMAN PUMPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED MODEL; RETURN CURRENT; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SURFACE HEAT LOSS; WATER MASS; WINTER MIXED LAYER DEPTH; WINTER MIXED LAYERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; EDDY; EKMAN PUMPING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MIXED LAYER; MODE WATER; OCEANIC CURRENT; STRATIFICATION; WATER MASS;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 80052818478     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI3888.1     Document Type: Article

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