Role of mesoscale eddies in cross-frontal transport of heat and biogeochemical tracers in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3057-3081

  Dufour, Carolina O ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   de Souza, Gregory F ^a,d   Frenger, Ivy ^a   Morrison, Adele K ^a   Palter, Jaime B ^c,e   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a   Galbraith, Eric D ^c   Dunne, John P ^b   Anderson, Whit G ^b   Slater, Richard D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Circulation Dynamics; Diffusion; Eddies; Fronts; Geographic location entity; Southern Ocean; Transport

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EDDIES; FRONTS; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSPORT;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ADVECTION; ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRACER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84951335170     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0240.1     Document Type: Article

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