Variability, instabilities, and eddies in a snowball ocean

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 869-888

  Ashkenazy, Yosef ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abyssal circulation; Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; General circulation models; Models and modeling; Ocean models; Oscillations; Paleoclimate; Physical meteorology and climatology

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; GEOTHERMAL HEATING; HEAT FLUX; ICE; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN MODEL; OSCILLATIONS; PALEOCLIMATES;

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; SNOW; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT;

EID: 84957831328     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0308.1     Document Type: Article

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