On the sensitivity of the drake passage transport to air-sea momentum flux

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2279-2290

  Mazloff, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere ocean interaction; Climate variability; Ocean circulation; Southern Ocean; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; AIR-SEA MOMENTUM FLUX; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; DRAKE PASSAGE; LENGTH SCALE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODELING; REMOTE REGIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL SCALE; STATE ESTIMATES; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; TIME-SCALES; WIND STRESS CURL;

CLIMATOLOGY; MOMENTUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EDDY; PERTURBATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84859329699     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00030.1     Document Type: Article

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