Thermobaricity in the transition zones between alpha and beta oceans

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1805-1821

  Stewart, Kial D ^a,b   Haine, Thomas W N ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Conditional instability; Intermediate waters; Nonlinear dynamics; Observational techniques and algorithms; Pressure; Profilers, oceanic; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EARTH (PLANET); EQUATIONS OF STATE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRESSURE; SEAWATER EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

INTERMEDIATE WATERS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; PROFILERS, OCEANIC; THERMAL EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; THERMOBARIC EFFECTS; THERMOBARIC INSTABILITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERMEDIATE WATER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRESSURE EFFECT; PROFILER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 84975257582     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0017.1     Document Type: Article

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