Downslope processes, deep ventilation and meridional overturning circulation

The processes governing the continental shelf break and deep ocean interactions are crucial to an understanding of the global climate system. In particular, downslope processes, deep ocean ventilation and meridional oceanic overturning circulation control the main exchange between the Southern Ocean...

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Main Authors: Bergamasco, Andrea, Budgell, William Paul, Chiantore, Maria Chiara, Aliani, Stefano
Other Authors: Fouzia DLADZI and Katarzyna JANIAK - EURO PEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Research Directorate Environment Climate change and Environmental Risks Unit
Format: Conference Object
Language:English
Published: European Communities 2007
Subjects:
shelf break
deep ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
circulation control
downslope processes
global climate system
Indian
Pacific
Southern Ocean
Online Access:http://puma.isti.cnr.it/dfdownloadnew.php?ident=cnr.ismar/cnr.ismar.sp/2007-A2-001
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Summary:The processes governing the continental shelf break and deep ocean interactions are crucial to an understanding of the global climate system. In particular, downslope processes, deep ocean ventilation and meridional oceanic overturning circulation control the main exchange between the Southern Ocean and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. However, the Southern Hemisphere is often given too little weight in our analyses and this leads to an underestimation of the role of these processes in global climate evolution at the right time scale.

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