Estimates of global ocean volume transports during 1960 through 2001

An estimate of global time-varying ocean volume transports is provided for the period 1960-2001 as it results from the German ECCO (GECCO) synthesis. Results confirm previously discussed mean-state ocean circulation systems, encompassing an upper meridional cell in the Atlantic with sinking in the N...

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Published in:Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors: Wang, W., Koehl, A., Stammer, D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Antarctic
Pacific
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-8823-4
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Summary:An estimate of global time-varying ocean volume transports is provided for the period 1960-2001 as it results from the German ECCO (GECCO) synthesis. Results confirm previously discussed mean-state ocean circulation systems, encompassing an upper meridional cell in the Atlantic with sinking in the North Atlantic connected to a lower meridional cell with sinking around Antarctica in the Pacific and Atlantic. Decadal to interdecadal variability as well as long-term trends of global ocean transport, analyzed over the course of the 42 years, appear as a reorganization of time-mean circulation structures, including the layer transports in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and the circulation involving the Indo-Pacific exchange. Citation: Wang, W., A. Kohl, and D. Stammer (2010), Estimates of global ocean volume transports during 1960 through 2001, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L15601, doi:10.1029/2010GL043949.

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