Research Article

Impacts of Wind Stress Changes on the Global Heat Transport, Baroclinic Instability, and the Thermohaline Circulation

Table 1

Heat transport at 30°S for the numerical experiments. Units are PW.

ExperimentsTotal heat transportGlobal oceanAtlanticIndi./Pac.Atmosphere

CTR−7.21−0.860.01−1.04/0.17−6.35
EQU 50%−7.21−0.920.01−1.19/0.26−6.29
46°S 50%−7.52−1.12−0.10−1.14/0.12−6.40