Low frequency variability of Southern Ocean jets

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Thompson, Andrew F ^a,b   Richards, Kelvin J ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COHERENT JETS; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; ENERGY EXCHANGES; HIGH RESOLUTION; JET FORMATION; LOCAL REGION; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MEAN FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; REYNOLDS STRESS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES; TRACER TRANSPORT; WATER MASS STRUCTURE;

CLIMATE MODELS;

BATHYMETRY; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; FLOW STRUCTURE; JET; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TIMESCALE; TOPOGRAPHY; TRACER; VORTICITY; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80053006422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006749     Document Type: Article

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