Sensitivity of antarctic circumpolar current transport and eddy activity to wind patterns in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1051-1067

  Langlais, Clothilde E ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^a,b   Zika, Jan D ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Circulation Dynamics; Dynamics; Eddies; ENSO; Mesoscale models; Models and modeling; Wind stress

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WIND STRESS;

ANNULAR MODE; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; EDDIES; ENSO; MESO-SCALE MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OCEANIC CURRENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIND FORCING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84942125064     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0053.1     Document Type: Article

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