Ocean circulation under globally glaciated snowball earth conditions: Steady-state solutions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-43

  Ashkenazy, Yosef ^a   Gildor, Hezi ^b   Losch, Martin ^c   Tziperman, Eli ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Coupled models; General circulation models; Models and modeling; Ocean circulation; Ocean dynamics; Ocean models; Thermocline circulation

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODELS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MODEL; THERMOCLINE CIRCULATION;

DYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; DOWNWELLING; GLACIATION; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SEA ICE; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING;

EID: 84892649271     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-086.1     Document Type: Article

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