Enhancement of the southward return flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by data assimilation and its influence in an assimilative ocean simulation forced by CORE-II atmospheric forcing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 869-889

  Fujii, Yosuke ^a   Tsujino, Hiroyuki ^a   Toyoda, Takahiro ^a   Nakano, Hideyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC); Coordinated Ocean ice Reference Experiment II (CORE II); Data assimilation; Ocean general circulation model; Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA IP)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ORA;

EID: 84939211698     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2780-1     Document Type: Article

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