Standing and transient eddies in the response of the Southern Ocean meridional overturning to the Southern annular mode

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6958-6974

  Dufour, C O ^a   Sommer, Le ^b   Zika, J D ^b   Gehlen, M ^c   Orr, J C ^c   Mathiot, P ^d   Barnier, B ^b  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

^d Académie Louvain   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antarctic Oscillation; Eddies; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; EDDIES; EDDY FLUXES; EDDY-PERMITTING RESOLUTION; FORCINGS; INTERANNUAL; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; WIND ANOMALIES; WIND EVENTS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

WIND;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867681473     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00309.1     Document Type: Article

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