Ocean submesoscales as a key component of the global heat budget

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 cli...

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Autores principales: Zhan Su, Jinbo Wang, Patrice Klein, Andrew F. Thompson, Dimitris Menemenlis
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/c9815ec3c8c04da5b935b5c1d26c233d
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Sumario: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.