The three-dimensional overturning circulation of the Southern Ocean during the WOCE era

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-78

  Naveira Garabato, Alberto C ^a   Williams, Adam P ^a   Bacon, Sheldon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER FORMATIONS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; UPPER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

CELLS; OCEAN CURRENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; CYTOLOGY; SEA ICE;

CYTOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER FORMATION; ENERGY FLUX; GLOBAL OCEAN; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PYCNOCLINE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WOCE; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BUOYANCY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84891024966     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.018     Document Type: Article

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