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equilibrium the circulation is characterized by the familiar upper-ocean western boundary currents and midlatitude gyres, with a strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current (see the surface buoyancy snapshot in Fig. 8a ). In the tropics, a strongly stratified thermocline overlies a weakly stratified interior, with the base of the thermocline at approximately 300 m in the case of enhanced upper mixing (indicated by buoyancy contours in Fig. 8b ), while the polar thermocline stratification is considerably weaker
equilibrium the circulation is characterized by the familiar upper-ocean western boundary currents and midlatitude gyres, with a strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current (see the surface buoyancy snapshot in Fig. 8a ). In the tropics, a strongly stratified thermocline overlies a weakly stratified interior, with the base of the thermocline at approximately 300 m in the case of enhanced upper mixing (indicated by buoyancy contours in Fig. 8b ), while the polar thermocline stratification is considerably weaker
