ocean circulation
Diagnosing the relation between ocean circulation, mixing and water mass transformation from an ocean hydrography and air sea fluxes
... diapycnal freshwater and heat transports between different density classes. The partic- ular set-up of the THIM results in very strong constraints on D, enabling the method to estimate very small values of D = 6.52 ± ...
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Impact of combining GRACE and GOCE gravity data on ocean circulation estimates
... on ocean fields as represented by a finite element ocean ...Southern Ocean in more detail. By assim- ilating globally the DOT data, the ocean fields in Southern Ocean can be improved ...
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The global ocean circulation on a retrograde rotating earth
... Although it is difficult (if not impossible) to determine all MOC equilibrium states in a state-of-the-art Global Climate Model (GCM), such as those used in the IPCC-AR4 (WG1, Chapter 8), we can perform simulations with ...
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Volume, heat, and freshwater transports of the global ocean circulation 1993 2000, estimated from a general circulation model constrained by World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) data
... Volume, Heat and Freshwater Transports of the Global Ocean Circulation 1992 {1997, Estimated from a General Circulation Model Constrained by WOCE Data.. Detlef Stammer, Scripps Instituti[r] ...
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Quantifying the roles of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry in governing ocean carbon-13 and atmospheric carbon dioxide at the last glacial maximum
... Our OGCBM has a relatively low sensitivity to the large increase in dust iron supply, which results from phytoplank- ton physiological and ocean circulation processes. We find that the OGCBM primary ...
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An Adaptive Multi-Analysis Technique and Software Architecture for Ocean Circulation Models.
... Generally, physical challenges encountered by the developers of wetting and drying algo- rithms involve accurate representation of hydrodynamic processes defining shoreline evolution over complex topography and bottom ...
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Depth of origin of ocean circulation induced magnetic signals
... the ocean-induced magnetic field can be used to correct water transports in a global ocean model with a data assimilation ...the ocean-circulation-induced magnetic signals is extremely ...
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14 C-age tracers in global ocean circulation models
... the ocean. The observed phosphate concentration at any point in the ocean can be described as the sum of preformed phosphate and phosphate remineralised from decaying or- ganic ...bulk ocean ...
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Modelling of electromagnetic signatures of global ocean circulation: physical approximations and numerical issues
... the ocean and mutual induction with the underlying ...global ocean circulation is a nonlinear dynamic system with tur- bulent features such as eddies and ...the ocean model and magnetic field ...
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Radiocarbon constraints on the glacial ocean circulation and its impact on atmospheric CO2
... overturning circulation, it is important to note that radiocarbon ventilation ages strictly represent a measure of the radiocarbon isotopic disequilibrium between the deep ocean and the contemporary ...
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Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations of the double-gyre ocean circulation
... The so-called quasi-geostrophic double-gyre flow has been recognized as one of the characteristic problems to study the nonlinear dynamics of the wind-driven ocean circulation (Jiang et al., 1995; Dijkstra, ...
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Southern ocean circulation
... on ocean dynamics based on physical ...Southern Ocean has two main circulations that are intimately linked: a zonal (west-east) circumpolar circulation and a meridional (north-south) overturning ...
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Ocean circulation generated magnetic signals
... have about half of that strength. We do not plot other com- ponents, as all fields are poloidal, the horizontal fields do not contain additional information. At sea level (bottom panels), both predictions are within the ...
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Simulation of Ocean Circulation around the Galápagos Archipelago Using a Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM).
... The ocean circulation around the Galápagos Archipelago is simulated using the University of Miami’s Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) using a high- resolution ...major ocean ...
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Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation
... abyssal ocean are sparse for practical reasons and are nearly absent within the bottom boundary ...deep ocean circulation; the rate of overturning associated with the abyssal branch of the MOC in ...
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World Ocean Circulation Experiment – Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology
... global ocean has a long ...world ocean by Levitus (1982) has become a standard for the oceanographic ...NODC) Ocean Climate Laboratory has regularly produced improved versions of the global climatol- ...
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Southern Ocean circulation from hydrographic data : a finite difference inverse model
... So at this point, the inverse model to be used will conserve mass and linear vorticity on a single layer for the Southern Ocean, making use of all available hydrographic data to get the [r] ...
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Antarctic sea ice control on ocean circulation in present and glacial climates
... density across the air–sea interface generated by heating/cooling and evaporation/precipitation, except for a change in sign. A positive buoyancy flux means that the ocean is becoming lighter because of warming, ...
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Fingerprints of changes in the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to large reorganizations in ocean circulation
... the ocean (Fig. 5). In the ocean, most of the carbon ends up in the Atlantic ...Southern Ocean outgassing ...increased circulation at depth due to the onset of deep water formation in this re- ...
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Dynamics of laboratory models of the wind-driven ocean circulation
... This thesis presents a numerical exploration of the dynamics governing rotating flow driven by a surface stress in the “sliced cylinder” model of Pedlosky & Greenspan (1967) and Beardsley (1969), and its close ...
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