The adiabatic pole-to-pole overturning circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1795-1810

  Wolfe, Christopher L ^a   Cessi, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Meridional overturning circulation; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics; Ocean models

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT REGIONS; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; AVERAGED MODELS; BUOYANCY FLUXES; DIFFUSIVITIES; DOMAIN GEOMETRY; DOWNGRADIENT DIFFUSION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODEL; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZED; STREAMFUNCTIONS; THREE MODELS; WATER MASS; WIND FORCING;

BUOYANCY; CELLS; DIFFUSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RANGE FINDING;

POLES;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; COMPLEXITY; EDDY; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OUTCROP; OVERTURN; WATER MASS; WIND FORCING;

EID: 81455140073     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4570.1     Document Type: Article

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