Water Mass Transformation in the North Atlantic and Its Impact on the Meridional Circulation: Insights from an Ocean Model Forced by NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis Surface Fluxes

• Main Authors: Gulev, Sergei K., Barnier, Bernard, Knochel, Hervé, Molines, Jean-Marc, Cottet, Mélanie
• Other Authors: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (SIO), Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS), Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels Grenoble (LEGI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), School of Earth and Ocean Sciences Victoria (SEOS), University of Victoria Canada (UVIC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2003
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; Curl; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00182970; https://hal.science/hal-00182970/document; https://hal.science/hal-00182970/file/Gulev2003.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3085:WMTITN>2.0.CO;2

Decadal-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation is simulated using a sigma-coordinate primitive equation model, forced by NCEP–NCAR reanalysis surface forcing fields for the period from 1958 to 1997. Surface heat and freshwater flux are expressed in terms of surface...