A simple and self-consistent geostrophic-force-balance model of the thermohaline circulation with boundary mixing

A simple model of the thermohaline circulation (THC) is formulated, with the objective to represent explicitly the geostrophic force balance of the basinwide THC. The model comprises advective-diffusive density balances in two meridional-vertical planes located at the eastern and the western walls o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Callies, Joern, Marotzke, J.
Other Authors: Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Copernicus GmbH 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70142
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-2811