deep (thermohaline) circulation
Deep drivers of mesoscale circulation in the central Rockall Trough
... and thermohaline-driven water masses known as the sub-polar gyre (SPG) ...ing Circulation (AMOC) south of the SPG was uncorrelated with the relatively steady exchange across the Greenland– Scotland ...the ...
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Decadal variability of the subtropical gyre and deep meridional overturning circulation of the Indian Ocean
... the deep ocean, where observations are few and mean velocities are very small (typically a few mms -1 ...ocean circulation is in ‘steady-state’, in order that observations from different years could be ...
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Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean
... the deep ocean is ...the deep ocean can sustain 20 – 30 Sv of water-mass ...ocean circulation is likely ...Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean, ...
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Report of the CLIVAR/OOPC/IAI Workshop on the South Atlantic Climate Observing System (SACOS), February 6 8, 2003, Hotel Portogalo, Angra dos Reis Brazil
... meridional circulation of the South Atlantic Ocean involves a deep, southward flow of cold and salty North Atlantic Deep Water along the eastern coast of South America, and a compensating northward ...
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A simple and self-consistent geostrophic-force-balance model of the thermohaline circulation with boundary mixing
... narrow deep sinking in the eastern high latitudes and broad up- welling throughout both eastern and western boundary lay- ers, as well as a poleward surface and an equatorward deep western boundary ...
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Numerical evidence against reversed thermohaline circulation in the warm Paleocene/Eocene ocean
... Subtropical convection occurs only in small sites and only to very shallow depths, except in the Tethys. Minor convective mixing occurs in the subtropics of the western Atlantic and Pacific basins in the regions of the ...
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WOCE/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development: report of the 3rd Session 6 8 May 2002, Hamburg, Germany
... cover, thermohaline circulation, or heat transport, show a pronounced improvement compared with the previous MPI climate ...of deep water formation to variations in atmospheric forcing and the ...
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Variations in mid-latitude North Atlantic surface water properties during the mid-Brunhes (MIS 9–14) and their implications for the thermohaline circulation
... did deep convection occur, and we suggest the well ventilated NADW recorded in both basins originated north of the studied core sites ...of deep water ventilation changes dif- fered in the two basins ...
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On the glacial and interglacial thermohaline circulation and the associated transports of heat and freshwater
... The circulation in the AABW cell is more vigorous in the Southern Ocean and occupies more volume than under present-day ...the deep circu- lation is almost sluggish due to the weak meridional density ...
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The response of Mediterranean thermohaline circulation to climate change: a minimal model
... the thermohaline circula- tion of the Mediterranean Sea requires an ocean model ca- pable of long integrations and involving a minimum of as- sumptions about the atmospheric ...the deep circulation ...
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Modelling seasonal circulation and thermohaline structure of the Caspian Sea
... has had detrimental effects on neighbouring societies, for instance on the ancient Khazar state that once occupied its northern shores (Rodionov, 1994). Despite its overwhelm- ing importance, sea level has consistently ...
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Report of the CLIVAR Workshop on North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation Variability
... ocean circulation is complex due to the presence of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC), which connects the Northern Atlantic Ocean with the rest of the World ...high-latitude deep water ...
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Variability in the lower circumpolar deep water and the Lazarev Sea
... the deep ocean link between the ACC and the Weddell Gyre through the transfer of LCDW into the WDW is of critical importance to assessing the response of Antarctica to changes in the global climate ...of ...
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Effects of the synoptic scale variability on the thermohaline circulation
... termohaline circulation (THC) plays a main role regulat- ing North Atlantic ...produce deep water ...Atlantic circulation driven by a freshening of surface water that would prevent formation of North ...
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Generation of large-scale intrusions at baroclinic fronts: an analytical consideration with a reference to the Arctic Ocean
... the deep water of the Arctic Ocean) probably does not exceed the value of 1 × 10 −5 m 2 s −1 and the vertical length scale of the intrusions, H, which this theory is applied to, is approximately equal to H ≈ ...
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Geothermal Heating and its Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation
... anomalous circulation through high latitudes—whereby heat is effectively communicated to the atmosphere through advection into deep mixed layers—is little changed, as the applied geothermal heating is ...
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The collateral circulation determines cortical infarct volume in anterior circulation ischemic stroke
... collateral circulation and the ensuing cerebral flow ...anterior circulation largely supplies the cortical areas. The deep brain tissue is supplied by penetrating arteries and has little or no ...
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Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation
... in what follows). They concluded that additional processes ought to be responsible for providing the nec- essary upwelling required for closure of the abyssal MOC. Their analysis was based on the parameterization of Shih ...
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The global ocean circulation on a retrograde rotating earth
... in deep water formation is explained by the salinity contrast between the subpolar North Pacific and the subpolar North Atlantic: the subpolar North Pacific surface water is not dense enough to sink, even when it ...
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Discovery and quantification of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: the importance of 25N
... geostrophic circulation from hydrographic sections has gone on to yield many estimates of the Atlantic MOC strength (see Sections 5 and 7), but in the late 1970’s the interesting study was application of the ...
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