Download pdf file of preprint. Download a gzipped post script file of preprint. A theory is developed in the framework of the 'residual circulation' to relate the vertical and horizontal stratification set up in the modeled circumpolar current to the transfer properties of the eddies and the patterns of imposed wind and buoyancy forcing. Download pdf file of preprint. Download a gzipped post script file of preprint.
Deep convection is an integral part of the large-scale meridional ocean circulation.
As such it is a process which must exert a fundamental influence on the global climate. Consequently, in the large-scale models used to study climate, deep convection has to be parameterised. My earliest work concerned plume and eddy scale dynamics. Latterly I have been exploring how convectively modified water communicates with the ocean at large. In work just commencing I will be looking at such processes in a high resolution numerical model of the Labrador basin.