The effect of ocean mixed layer depth on climate in slab ocean aquaplanet experiments
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The effect of ocean mixed layer depth on climate in slab ocean aquaplanet experiments
The effect of ocean mixed layer depth on climate is explored in a suite of slab ocean aquaplanet simulations with different mixed layer depths ranging from a globally uniform value of 50–2.4 m. In addition to the expected increase in the amplitude of the seasonal cycle in temperature with decreasing ocean mixed layer depth, the simulated climates differ in several less intuitive ways including ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Climate Dynamics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0930-7575,1432-0894
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1843-4