How does the Redi parameter for mesoscale mixing impact global climate in an Earth System Model?

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 586-601

  Pradal, Marie Aude ^a   Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate; coupled feedbacks; isopycnal stirring; mixing; Redi diffusion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); FEEDBACK; ICE; MIXING; POLES; SEA ICE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; ISOPYCNAL STIRRING; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHORT WAVE ABSORPTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CONVECTION; COUPLING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84937430126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000273     Document Type: Article

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