Upper-ocean singular vectors of the North Atlantic climate with implications for linear predictability and variability

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 663, 2012, Pages 500-513

  Zanna, L ^a   Heimbach, P ^b   Moore, A M ^c   Tziperman, E ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal prediction; Error growth; Heat content; Meridional overturning circulation; Model initialization; Optimal perturbations; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; DEEP OCEAN; EIGEN MODES; ERROR GROWTH; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL DENSITY; INITIAL STATE; LINEAR INTERFERENCE; MEAN FLOW; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NON-ORTHOGONAL; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; PARAMETRIZATIONS; SINGULAR VECTORS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EXCITATION; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; TIME-SCALES; UPPER BOUND;

CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; ENTHALPY; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84858288881     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.937     Document Type: Article

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