Mechanisms of Southern Ocean heat uptake and transport in a global eddying climate model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2059-2075

  Morrison, Adele K ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Winton, Michael ^b   Anderson, Whit G ^b   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Eddies; Geographic location entity; Meridional overturning circulation; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

EDDIES; EDDY HEAT TRANSPORT; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HEAT BUDGET ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84962284824     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0579.1     Document Type: Article

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