Mean Atlantic meridional overturning circulation across 26.5°N from eddy-resolving simulations compared to observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xu, X ^a   Schmitz, W J ^b   Hurlburt, H E ^c   Hogan, P J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; BAHAMAS; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; EDDY-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; EKMAN LAYERS; FLORIDA; FLOWTHROUGH; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; RECIRCULATIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BATHYMETRY; DATA SET; EDDY COVARIANCE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THERMOCLINE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; STRAITS OF FLORIDA;

EID: 84859448339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007586     Document Type: Article

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