Evaluation of a Finite-Element Sea-Ice Ocean Model (FESOM) set-up to study the interannual to decadal variability in the deep-water formation rates Topical Collection on Multi-scale modelling of coastal, shelf and global ocean dynamics

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 347-370

  Scholz, Patrick ^a,b   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b   Wang, Qiang ^a   Danilov, Sergey ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; COREv2; Decadal variability; Finite element method; Sea ice ocean model

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; COREV2; DECADAL VARIABILITY; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; OCEAN MODEL; SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP WATER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SEA ICE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; LABRADOR SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84877829775     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-012-0590-0     Document Type: Article

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