Impacts on ocean heat from transient mesoscale eddies in a hierarchy of climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 952-977

  Griffies, Stephen M ^a   Winton, Michael ^a   Anderson, Whit G ^a   Benson, Rusty ^a   Delworth, Thomas L ^a   Dufour, Carolina O ^b   Dunne, John P ^a   Goddard, Paul ^c   Morrison, Adele K ^a   Rosati, Anthony ^a   Wittenberg, Andrew T ^a   Yin, Jianjun ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CLIMATE SIMULATION; EDDY HEAT TRANSPORT; HEAT TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN HEAT UPTAKE; TEMPERATURE DRIFTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; HEAT BUDGET; HEAT TRANSFER; MESOSCALE EDDY; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 84923025638     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00353.1     Document Type: Article

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