The impact of historical biases on the XBT-derived meridional overturning circulation estimates at 34°S

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1848-1855

  Goes, Marlos ^a,b   Baringer, Molly ^a   Goni, Gustavo ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

meridional overturning; uncertainty estimation; XBT

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; MERIDIONAL HEAT TRANSPORTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATIONS; TRANSPORT ESTIMATES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION; XBT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84927797030     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061802     Document Type: Article

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