Effects of Southern Hemisphere Wind Changes on the Meridional Overturning Circulation in Ocean Models

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-94

  Gent, Peter R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Eddy compensation; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DOMINANT MECHANISM; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN MODEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

SEA WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 84954305463     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-122414-033929     Document Type: Article

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