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Net Air-Sea Heat Flux and Meridional Heat Transport

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The net heat gain of the ocean is determined by summing the fluxes of shortwave (SR) and longwave radiation (LR) and the turbulent fluxes of sensible (H) and latent heat (LE) at the sea surface.

$$NHF = SR + LR + LE + H$$
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Lindau, R. (2001). Net Air-Sea Heat Flux and Meridional Heat Transport. In: Climate Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59526-4_4

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