Download or read book The Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Ocean atmosphere General Circulation Model written by Andreas Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stability of the thermohaline circulation in analytical and numerical models written by Gerrit Lohmann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Atmospheric Coupling on the Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation written by Mototaka Nakamura and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interhemispheric Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Box Model written by Jeffery R. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) The model is augmented with explicit atmospheric eddy transport parameterizations, allowing examination of the eddy moisture transport (EMT) and eddy heat transport (EHT) feedbacks. As in the hemispheric model, the EMT feedback is always destabilizing, whereas the EHT may stabilize or destabilize. However, in this model whether the EHT stabilizes or destabilizes depends largely on the sign of the ocean salinity feedback and the size of the perturbation. Since oceanic heat transport in the southern hemisphere is weak, the northern hemisphere EMT and EHT feedbacks.
Download or read book Bifurcations and Dynamics of the Ocean s Thermohaline Circulation written by Michael Vellinga and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thermohaline Circulation Stability written by Valerio Lucarini and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: A thorough analysis of the stability of the uncoupled Rooth inter-hemispheric 3-box model of thermohaline circulation (THC) is presented. The model consists of a northern high latitudes box, a tropical box, and a southern high latitudes box, which respectively correspond to the northern, tropical and southern Atlantic ocean. We adopt restoring boundary conditions for the temperature variables and flux boundary conditions for the salinity variables. We study how the strength of THC changes when the system undergoes forcings that are analogous to those of global warming conditions by applying to the equilibrium state perturbations to the moisture and heat fluxes into the three boxes. In each class of experiments, we determine, using suitably defined metrics, the boundary dividing the set of forcing scenarios that lead the system to equilibria characterized by a THC pattern similar to the present one, from those that drive the system to equilibria where the THC is reversed. Fast increases in the moisture flux into the northern high latitude box strongly inhibits the breakdown and can prevent it, in the case of slow increases in the Northern Hemisphere. Similarly, high rates of heat flux increase in the Northern Hemisphere destabilize the system more effectively than low ones, and increases in the heat fluxes in the Southern Hemisphere tend to stabilize the system.
Download or read book A Coupled Atmosphere ocean Model of Thermohaline Circulation Including Wind driven Gyre Circulation with an Analytical Solution written by Elise Marie Black Olson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parameter representing circulation due to wind forcing is added to the thermohaline circulation model of Marotzke (1996). The model consists of four boxes and is governed by a system of two differential equations governing the temperature and salinity differences between high latitude ocean and low latitude ocean boxes. The modified model is solved numerically for equilibrium solutions, and then solved analytically by the method of Krasovskiy and Stone (1998). At the maximum strength of wind-forced circulation studied, v = 5 x 10-11 s-1, a stable thermal mode equilibrium temperature difference of 25 K is calculated. Once v reaches a critical value, which is within the range of physically reasonable values, the stable haline mode equlibrium and unstable thermal mode equilibrium are no longer observed. It is concluded that strong wind-forced circulation suppresses the thermal mode equilibrium, but that more research is necessary to determine the degree to which this effect is present in the real world.
Download or read book The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation written by Hendrik M. van Aken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a global hydrographic description of the thermohaline circulation, an introduction to the theoretical aspects of this phenomenon, and observational evidence for the theory. The hydrographic description and the observational evidence are based on data sources available via internet, mainly from the World Oceanographic Experiment (WOCE). The book also offers an introduction to hydrographic analysis and interpretation.
Download or read book Destabilization of the Thermohaline Circulation by Atmospheric Transports written by Yuriy P. Krasovskiy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Circulation and Climate written by Sybren S. Drijfhout and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual models are a vital tool for understanding the processes that maintain the global ocean circulation, both in nature and in complex numerical ocean models. In this chapter we provide a broad overview of our conceptual understanding of the wind-driven circulation, the thermohaline circulation, and their transient behavior. While our conceptual understanding of the time-mean wind-driven circulation is now fairly mature, basic questions remain regarding the thermohaline circulation, for example, surrounding its overall strength and stability. Similarly, basic questions remain regarding the transient adjustment and internal variability of the ocean circulation.
Download or read book The Response of a Coupled Ocean atmosphere General Circulation Model to Wind Burst written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Thermohaline Circulation and Ocean atmosphere Coupling written by Xiaoli Wang (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Warmwatersphere of the North Atlantic Ocean written by Wolfgang Krauss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atlantic Ocean plays a dominant role in the global climate system due to its unique thermohaline circulation: it is the only ocean in which heat is transported from the southern to the northern hemisphere, yielding the mild climate of Europe and influencing the climate system on the entire globe. The book primarily addresses oceanographers, meteorologists and the broad community working on climate research. With a few exceptions, mathematical descriptions are reduced to a minimum; the detailed explanation of the main current systems, the oceanic eddy fields and the interpretation of the general circulation by numeric models will also be of interest to neighboring disciplines. The book reviews the most recent advances in its field.
Download or read book A Coupled Zonally Averaged Atmosphere Ocean Model Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation written by Thomas F. Stocker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experiments with a recently developed zonally averaged climate model which includes the ocean's thermohaline circulation are performed. The first experiment simulates a global thermohaline circulation in which deep water is formed in the North Atlantic, flows as a deep current into the Pacific basin and then upwells. The water is returned as a near-surface flow through the Indian Ocean into the South Atlantic Gordon, 1986. The present model reproduces a global deep circulation under present-day forcing and shows that the zonal atmospheric water vapor transport is of importance. The second experiment studies the effect of glacial meltwater runoff at different latitudes on the thermohaline circulation, meridional heat flux and surface air temperature. Depending on the strength and position of the forcing anomaly, severe cooling can be observed in high northern latitudes. The mechanism may provide further insight into the Younger Dryas climate event.
Download or read book The Response of a Coupled Ocean atmosphere General Circulation Model to Wind Bursts written by Mojib Latif and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Circulation and Climate written by Gerold Siedler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the views of leading scientists on the knowledge of the global ocean circulation following the completion of the observational phase of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment. WOCE's in situ physical and chemical measurements together with satellite altimetry have produced a data set which provides for development of ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation models used for understanding ocean and climate variability and projecting climate change. This book guides the reader through the analysis, interpretation, modelling and synthesis of this data.
Download or read book Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment written by Brian Straughan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics covered include soil mechanics and porous media, glacier and ice dynamics, climatology and lake physics, climate change as well as numerical algorithms. The book, written by well-known experts, addresses researchers and students interested in physical aspects of our environment.
