The impact of open oceanic processes on the Antarctic Bottom Water outflows

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1941-1957

  Kida, Shinichiro ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Ocean models; Water masses storage

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTICA; CHANNEL WALL; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENSITY GRADIENTS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN MODEL; OCEANIC WATERS; SHELF BREAK; TIME-SCALES; WATER MASS; WATER MASSES/STORAGE; WEDDELL SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SHELF BREAK; WATER MASS; WATER STORAGE; WIND STRESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 82055178581     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4571.1     Document Type: Article

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