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Article: The Arctic and Subarctic Ocean Flux of Potential Vorticity and the Arctic Ocean Circulation*
- Article from:
- Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Meteorological Society Dec 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
According to observations, the Arctic Ocean circulation beneath a shallow thermocline can be schematized by cyclonic rim currents along shelves and over ridges. In each deep basin, the circulation is also believed to be cyclonic. This circulation pattern has been used as an important benchmark for validating Arctic Ocean models. However, modeling this grand circulation pattern with some of the most sophisticated ocean-ice models has been often difficult. The most puzzling and thus perhaps the most interesting finding from the Arctic Ocean Model Inlcrcomparison Project (AOMIP), an international consortium that runs 14 Arctic Ocean models by using the identical forcing fields, is ...