Large near-inertial oscillations of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-56

  Blaker, Adam T ^a   Hirschi, Joël J M ^a   Sinha, Bablu ^a   de Cuevas, Beverly ^a   Alderson, Steven ^a   Coward, Andrew ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

High frequency variability; Meridional overturning circulation; Near inertial gravity waves; Ocean model

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH-RESOLUTION OCEAN MODEL; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; INERTIAL GRAVITY WAVE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NEAR-INERTIAL OSCILLATIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN MODEL; TIME-SCALES; WIND FORCING;

GRAVITY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OSCILLATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 84855797034     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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