Abyssal connections of Antarctic Bottom Water in a Southern Ocean State Estimate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2177-2182

  Van Sebille, Erik ^a   Spence, Paul ^a   Mazloff, Matthew R ^b   England, Matthew H ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^c,d,e   Saenko, Oleg A ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctic Bottom Water; Deep ocean circulation; Lagrangian trajectories; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; FORMATION RATES; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; SOURCE REGION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME-SCALES;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; METALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; STATE ESTIMATION;

TROPICS;

ABYSSAL ZONE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; BOTTOM WATER; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84879930926     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50483     Document Type: Article

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