Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget

Zhan Su; Jinbo Wang; Patrice Klein; Andrew F. Thompson; Dimitris Menemenlis

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-02983-w

Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget

Zhan Su,
Jinbo Wang,
Patrice Klein,
Andrew F. Thompson,
Dimitris Menemenlis

Affiliations

Zhan Su: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Jinbo Wang: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Patrice Klein: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Andrew F. Thompson: Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Dimitris Menemenlis: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02983-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Oceanic motions associated with horizontal scales smaller than 50 km remain unresolved in climate models. Here the authors show that motions in this scale range are critical to the global transport of heat between the ocean interior and the atmosphere, and are thus a key component of the Earth’s climate.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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