Surface Forcing of Potential Vorticity in a Numerical Model

• Other Authors: Beck, Michael (authoraut), Dewar, William (professor directing thesis), Krishnamurti, Ruby (committee member), Chanton, Jeff (committee member), Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Florida State University
• Subjects: Oceanography; Dewar; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-1188; http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A175746/datastream/TN/view/Surface%20Forcing%20of%20Potential%20Vorticity%20in%20a%20Numerical%20Model.jpg

Mode water formation has long been treated as a buoyancy flux problem; however this approach fails to explain all of the variability of mode water. A number of different approaches have been demonstrated to explain more of this variability, such as links to North Atlantic Oscillation and the Gulf St...