Comments on “Decadal Changes in the North Atlantic and Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux”
Comments on “Decadal Changes in the North Atlantic and Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux”
It is demonstrated that current level models, both with and without assimilation, generate too shallow an overturning in the North Atlantic (just like their predecessors) because they do not reproduce the descent of plumes of cold water from the Greenland and Norwegian Seas. Consequently, the prediction of decadal change from one such model reported by C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach is queried.
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Saunders, Peter M.
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Cunningham, Stuart A.
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de Cuevas, Beverly A.
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Coward, Andrew C.
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September 2008
Saunders, Peter M.
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Cunningham, Stuart A.
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de Cuevas, Beverly A.
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Coward, Andrew C.
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Saunders, Peter M., Cunningham, Stuart A., de Cuevas, Beverly A. and Coward, Andrew C.
(2008)
Comments on “Decadal Changes in the North Atlantic and Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux”.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38 (9), .
(doi:10.1175/2008JPO3827.1).
Abstract
It is demonstrated that current level models, both with and without assimilation, generate too shallow an overturning in the North Atlantic (just like their predecessors) because they do not reproduce the descent of plumes of cold water from the Greenland and Norwegian Seas. Consequently, the prediction of decadal change from one such model reported by C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach is queried.
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Published date: September 2008
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