Comparison of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water formation rates in the South Pacific between NCAR-CCSM4 and observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 519-526

  Hartin, Corinne A ^a,b   Fine, Rana A ^a   Kamenkovich, Igor ^a   Sloyan, Bernadette M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Joint Global Change Research Institute   (United States)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

AAIW; CFC inventories; formation rates; SAMW

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AAIW; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; FORMATION RATES; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; SAMW; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SURFACE CONCENTRATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CFC; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW MODELING; MIXED LAYER; SUBANTARCTIC REGION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892659473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058728     Document Type: Article

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