Deep-Reaching Global Ocean Overturning Circulation Generated by Surface Buoyancy Forcing

Andreas Klocker; David Munday; Bishakhdatta Gayen; Fabien Roquet; Joseph H. LaCasce

doi:10.16993/tellusa.3231

Deep-Reaching Global Ocean Overturning Circulation Generated by Surface Buoyancy Forcing

Tellus

Volume 75 (2023): Issue 1

By: Andreas Klocker , David Munday , Bishakhdatta Gayen , Fabien Roquet and Joseph H. LaCasce

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Keywords:

global overturning circulation,

buoyancy forcing,

rotating horizontal convection,

geostrophic balance

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