Low-frequency climate response of quasigeostrophic Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-260

  Abramov, Rafail V ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate sensitivity; Ocean circulation; Ocean models; Quasigeostrophic models; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; FLUCTUATION DISSIPATION THEOREM; GEOMETRICALLY EXACT; LINEAR RESPONSE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; MEAN FLOW; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; PATTERN CORRELATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; RESPONSE ALGORITHMS; STATE RESPONSE; TANGENT LINEAR MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LYAPUNOV METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALGORITHM; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 84857757925     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-052.1     Document Type: Article

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