Southern ocean overturning compensation in an eddy-resolving climate simulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1575-1592

  Bishop, Stuart P ^a   Gent, Peter R ^b   Bryan, Frank O ^b   Thompson, Andrew F ^c   Long, Matthew C ^b   Abernathey, Ryan ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Eddies; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; WIND STRESS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EDDIES; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE SIMULATIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; PARTIAL COMPENSATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WATER MASS TRANSFORMATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; EDDY; KINETIC ENERGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; WIND STRESS; ZONAL WIND;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84965167976     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0177.1     Document Type: Article

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