Response of a strongly eddying global ocean to North Atlantic freshwater perturbations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 464-481

  Den Toom, Matthijs ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a   Weijer, Wilbert ^b   Hecht, Matthew W ^b   Maltrud, Mathew E ^b   Van Sebille, Erik ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH DENSITY LAYERS; LIGHT TRANSFORMATION; PARALLEL OCEAN PROGRAMS; SURFACE SALINITIES; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION;

ADVECTION; EXPERIMENTS; WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; EDDY; FRESHWATER INPUT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 84893776507     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0155.1     Document Type: Article

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