Response of southern ocean convection and abyssal overturning to surface buoyancy perturbations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4263-4278

  Morrison, Adele K ^a   England, Matthew H ^b   Hogg, Andrew McC ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COOLING; WATER;

BUOYANCY-DRIVEN; ENHANCED SURFACE; FRESHWATER FLUXES; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; RELAXATION TEMPERATURE; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SURFACE COOLING; TRANSPORT OF HEAT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BUOYANCY; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OVERTURN; PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84948585266     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00110.1     Document Type: Article

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