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| Colas, Francois; Mcwilliams, James C.; Capet, Xavier; Kurian, Jaison. |
| The Peru-Chile current System (PCS) is a region of persistent biases in global climate models. It has strong coastal upwelling, alongshore boundary currents, and mesoscale eddies. These oceanic phenomena provide essential heat transport to maintain a cool oceanic surface underneath the prevalent atmospheric stratus cloud deck, through a combination of mean circulation and eddy flux. We demonstrate these behaviors in a regional, quasi-equilibrium oceanic model that adequately resolves the mesoscale eddies with climatological forcing. The key result is that the atmospheric heating is large (> 50 W m(-2)) over a substantial strip > 500 km wide off the coast of Peru, and the balancing lateral oceanic flux is much larger than provided by the offshore... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Regional modelling; South-East Pacific; Heat Balance; Oceanic eddies; Regional climate. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00088/19892/17756.pdf |
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