Long-term ocean simulations in FESOM: Evaluation and application in studying the impact of Greenland Ice Sheet melting

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 62, Issue 10-12, 2012, Pages 1471-1486

  Wang, Xuezhu ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Sidorenko, Dmitry ^a   Danilov, Sergey ^a   Schröter, Jens ^a   Jung, Thomas ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean change; Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Greenland ice sheet; Sea level; Unstructured mesh ocean modeling

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DEEP CONVECTION; DISCHARGE RATES; FINITE ELEMENT; FRESHWATER CONTENTS; FRESHWATER INPUTS; GEOMETRICAL FLEXIBILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HINDCASTS; MODEL SENSITIVITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN MODELING; OCEAN SALINITY; OCEAN STATE; SEA ICE EXTENT; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STRUCTURED GRID; SUB-ARCTIC; THERMOHALINE; TIME-SCALES; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; WATER DISTRIBUTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; GLACIERS; MELTING; MESH GENERATION; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; WATER; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DECADAL VARIATION; DISCHARGE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRESHWATER INPUT; HINDCASTING; ICE SHEET; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MELTING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIMESCALE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84870925528     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0572-2     Document Type: Article

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