The force balance of the southern ocean meridional overturning circulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1193-1208

  Mazloff, Matthew R ^a   Ferrari, Raffaele ^b   Schneider, Tapio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; EDDY COMPONENTS; FORCE BALANCES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MOMENTUM BUDGET; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER MASS TRANSPORT;

BUOYANCY; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

BUOYANCY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; WATER MASS; ZONAL FLOW;

DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84880146962     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-069.1     Document Type: Article

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