Water mass transformations in the southern ocean diagnosed from observations: Contrasting effects of air-sea fluxes and diapycnal mixing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1472-1484

  Badin, Gualtiero ^a   Williams, Richard G ^b   Jing, Zhao ^c   Wu, Lixin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSIVITY; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; FORMATION RATES; HIGH LATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

MIXING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; DENSE WATER; HEAT FLUX; MIXING; WATER MASS;

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

EID: 84881271835     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0216.1     Document Type: Article

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