A Simple Theory of the Pycnocline and Overturning Revisited

Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 19-32

  Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a   De Boer, Agatha M ^b   Mignone, Bryan K ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCING; CIRCULATION CHANGES; DIAGNOSTIC MODEL; DIAPYCNAL DIFFUSION; GEOMETRIC SIMPLIFICATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SURFACE DENSITY; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84950989034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM04     Document Type: Chapter

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