Comparing the linear and nonlinear buoyancy-driven circulation

A. Gjermundsen; J. H. Lacasce

doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1299282

Comparing the linear and nonlinear buoyancy-driven circulation

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Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: A. Gjermundsen and J. H. Lacasce

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000870.2017.1299282 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 1299282 - 1299282

Submitted on: Dec 22, 2016

Accepted on: Jan 23, 2017

Published on: Jan 1, 2017

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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Keywords:

meridional overturning circulation,

boundary currents,

thermocline,

buoyancy-driven flow

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