Impacts of parameterized langmuir turbulence and nonbreaking wave mixing in global climate simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4752-4775

  Fan, Yalin ^a,b   Griffies, Stephen M ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixing, Wind waves, Climate models, Coupled models, Parameterization, Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WATER WAVES;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; MIXED LAYER DEEPENING; STRATIFICATION EFFECTS; TURBULENCE ENHANCEMENTS; WIND WAVE; WINTER MIXED LAYER DEPTH;

PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN WAVE; OVERTURN; PARAMETERIZATION; SHOALING WAVE; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING; UPPER OCEAN; WIND WAVE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84900564549     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00583.1     Document Type: Article

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