The National Basic Research Program Grant of China under contract No.2011CB403502;the National High Technology Research and Development Program(863 Program)under contract No.2013AA09A506;the Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction Program under contract No.GASI-03-01-01-04;the International Cooperation Program Grant of China under contract No.2010DFB23580;author Guan Yuping is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 40976011 and 91228202
The annual mean volume and heat transport sketches through the inter-basin passages and transoceanic sections have been constructed based on 1400-year spin up results of the MOM4p 1. The spin up starts from a state of...