The role of the geothermal heat flux in driving the abyssal ocean circulation
The results presented in this paper demonstrate that the geothermal heat flux (GHF) from the solid Earth into the ocean plays a non-negligible role in determining both abyssal stratification and circulation strength. Based upon an ocean data set, we show that the map of upward heat flux at the ocean...
Main Authors: | Mashayek, A., Vettoretti, G., Peltier, W. R., Ferrari, Raffaele |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85577 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3736-1956 |
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