Vertical energy fluxes and meridional heat transport in the North Atlantic Ocean
Abstract
A method to interpolate the climatological data set obtained by Bunker for the North Atlantic into a regular 1 deg map grid was developed. The data set contains the mean monthly fields of the meteorological basic parameters of many years, and the deduced energy and momentum flux on the ocean-atmosphere boundary. The meridional heat transfer determined from the fields of the resulting net energy transfer was used to check independently calculated energy fluxes. The value of the short-wavelength radiation above the ocean, calculated by Bunker, was corrected. The parameterization coefficients for latent and sensible heat flux used by Bunker were improved. The differences between the obtained net energy fluxes and meridional heat transport and those of Bunker are discussed.
- Publication:
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Global Climate and Our Environment
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986gcoe.conf...15I
- Keywords:
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- Atlantic Ocean;
- Energy Transfer;
- Heat Transfer;
- Meridional Flow;
- Climatology;
- Heat Flux;
- Mapping;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Geophysics