Climatic variations of the work done by the wind on the ocean's general circulation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lauderdale, J M ^a,b   Naveira Garabato, A C ^b   Oliver, K I C ^b   Thomas, L N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; CLIMATIC VARIATION; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DRAKE PASSAGE; ENERGY SUPPLIES; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GLOBAL CLIMATES; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MECHANICAL ENERGY SUPPLY; OCEAN MODEL; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; RECENT TRENDS; RECIRCULATION GYRE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SURFACE VELOCITY; TIME-SCALES; TOPOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EDDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VELOCITY; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WIND STRESS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84866637163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008135     Document Type: Article

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