Subantarctic mode water formation, destruction, and export in the eddy-permitting southern ocean state estimate

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1485-1511

  Cerovečki, Ivana ^a   Talley, Lynne D ^a   Mazloff, Matthew R ^a   Maze, Guillaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FLUXES; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DIFFERENTIAL HEAT; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SURFACE FORMATION;

BUOYANCY; MIXING; STATE ESTIMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOYANCY; MIXING; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84880164108     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0121.1     Document Type: Article

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