Freshwater transport in the coupled 1 ocean - atmosphere system : a passive ocean
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Conservation of water demands that meridional ocean and atmo6 sphere freshwater transports (FWT) are of equal magnitude but opposite in 7 direction. This suggests that the atmospheric FWT and its associated latent 8 heat (LH) transport could be thought of as a “coupled ocean/atmosphere 9 mode”. But what is the true nature of this coupling? Is the ocean passive or 10
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تاریخ انتشار 2015