Sentences with phrase «of diapycnal»

We find that over a wide range of values of diapycnal diffusivity and Southern Ocean winds, and with a variety of changes in surface boundary conditions, the spatial patterns of ocean temperature anomaly are nearly always determined as much or more by the existing heat reservoir redistribution than by the nearly passive uptake of temperature due to changes in the surface boundary conditions.

The great majority of the diapycnal flux is the result of interaction with restricted regions of rough ocean - floor topography.

Not exact matches

The researchers took measurements of small - scale temperature and velocity fluctuations, to measure the diapycnal movements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) across the Drake Passage region of the Southern Ocean.

For a rough estimate, downwelling water to the deep ocean in convection zones is about 40 Sv (10 ^ 6 m3 / s), assuming that comes in with say 2 deg C, and leaves (through upwelling, isopycnal and diapycnal diffusion), that is a heat flux of 320 TW, thus at least an order of magnitude larger than the geothermal fluxes.

Quantify the magnitude, location, and physical mechanisms associated with interior diapycnal mixing in the ocean, which contribute to the diabatic AMOC, and evaluate the realism of current GCMs in this regard.

Woodgate, R.A., K. Aagaard, J.H. Swift, K.K. Falkner and W.M. Smethie,» Pacific Ventilation of the Arctic Ocean's lower halocline by upwelling and diapycnal mixing over the continental margin `, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L18609, doi: 10.1029 / 2005GL023999, 2005.

Mugwump, you talk about the «average diapycnal heat transfer of the ocean», but what Douglass» revised model actually requires is the heat transfer out of the upper mixed layer, which must (according to his ~ 5 month time scale) be very shallow.

Therefore, it is much more likely that the average diapycnal heat transfer of the ocean is determined by the interior than it is by the boundaries or regions of steep topography.

Quantify the magnitude, location, and physical mechanisms associated with interior diapycnal mixing in the ocean, which contribute to the diabatic AMOC, and evaluate the realism of current ocean GCMs in this regard.

The numerical experiments are designed to explore the effects of changing various properties of the ocean (its size, geometry and diapycnal diffusivity), the atmosphere (its water vapour content) and the forcing of the system (the distribution of incoming solar radiation and the rotation rate of the planet).

The theory shows that dynamics of the overturning circulation can be characterized by two limiting regimes, corresponding to weak and strong diapycnal mixing.