Dynamics of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Part 1: Buoyancy-forced response

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-62

  Schloesser, Fabian ^a   Furue, Ryo ^a   McCreary, Julian P ^a   Timmermann, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; COASTAL ZONES; DAMPING; DIFFUSION; GRAVITY WAVES; HELIUM; SHEAR FLOW;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; APPROXIMATE DEPENDENCIES; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; HORIZONTAL DIFFUSIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KELVIN WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; ROSSBY WAVE; SURFACE FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84861456020     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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