Drake Passage가 전지구 열염분 순환에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Through a series of idealized modeling experiment, we have investigated the effects of Drake Passage on the Global thermohaline circulation. We simplified the oceans as rectangular oceans connected to each other through the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The bottom topography was ignored except Drake Passage. The effects of bottom topography are stronger over the Atlantic than the Pacific. In the cases with a sill across Drake Passage, the global thermohaline circulations are strong in general.