Ocean heat transport and its projected change in CanESM2

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8148-8163

  Yang, Duo ^a   Saenko, Oleg A ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Energy transport; Model evaluation performance; Ocean circulation; Ocean models; Seasonal cycle

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; ENERGY TRANSPORT; MODEL EVALUATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SEASONAL CYCLE;

HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; GYRE; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; OVERTURN; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84871820604     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00715.1     Document Type: Article

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