A model of the ocean overturning circulation with two closed basins and a re-entrant channel
Zonally averaged models of the ocean overturning circulation miss important zonal exchanges of waters between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans. A two-layer, two-basin model that accounts for these exchanges is introduced and suggests that in the present-day climate the overturning circulation is...
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American Meteorological Society
2017
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