Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget
Oceanic motions associated with horizontal scales smaller than 50 km remain unresolved in climate models. Here the authors show that motions in this scale range are critical to the global transport of heat between the ocean interior and the atmosphere, and are thus a key component of the Earth’s cli...
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| author | Zhan Su Jinbo Wang Patrice Klein Andrew F. Thompson Dimitris Menemenlis |
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| description | Oceanic motions associated with horizontal scales smaller than 50 km remain unresolved in climate models. Here the authors show that motions in this scale range are critical to the global transport of heat between the ocean interior and the atmosphere, and are thus a key component of the Earth’s climate. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9815ec3c8c04da5b935b5c1d26c233d2022-12-21T19:33:11ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232018-02-01911810.1038/s41467-018-02983-wOcean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budgetZhan Su0Jinbo Wang1Patrice Klein2Andrew F. Thompson3Dimitris Menemenlis4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyEnvironmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of TechnologyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of TechnologyOceanic motions associated with horizontal scales smaller than 50 km remain unresolved in climate models. Here the authors show that motions in this scale range are critical to the global transport of heat between the ocean interior and the atmosphere, and are thus a key component of the Earth’s climate.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02983-w |
| spellingShingle | Zhan Su Jinbo Wang Patrice Klein Andrew F. Thompson Dimitris Menemenlis Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget Nature Communications |
| title | Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| title_full | Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| title_fullStr | Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| title_short | Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| title_sort | ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02983-w |
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