Modeling the oceanic response to westerly wind bursts in the western equatorial Pacific

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2227-2249

  Zhang, Kate Qian ^a,c   Rothstein, Lewis M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; UPPER OCEAN; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0000885427     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<2227:MTORTW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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