Role of resolved and parameterized eddies in the labrador sea balance of heat and buoyancy

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3008-3032

  Saenko, Oleg A ^a   Dupont, Frédéric ^a   Yang, Duo ^a   Myers, Paul G ^b   Yashayaev, Igor ^c   Smith, Gregory C ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Currents; Eddies; Fluxes; Mesoscale models; Models and modeling; Parameterization; Physical Meteorology and Climatology

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE MODELS; FLUXES; NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARAMETERIZATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; BUOYANCY ADVECTION; EDDIES; GENERAL STRUCTURES; MESO-SCALE MODELS; OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; WINTER MIXED LAYERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BUOYANCY; EDDY; HEAT BALANCE; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; VENTILATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84919665752     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0041.1     Document Type: Article

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