The sensitivity and stability of the ocean's thermohaline circulation to finite-amplitude perturbations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2305-2315

  Mu, Mu ^a   Sun, Liang ^a,b   Dijkstra, Henk A ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LINEARIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STABILITY;

CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATIONS (CNOP); LINEAR SINGULAR VECTOR (LSV) APPROACH; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; THERMOHALINE FLOWS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

FRESHWATER; SALINITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 8744256430     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<2305:TSASOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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