Decadal oscillations driven by the annual cycle in a zonally-averaged coupled ocean-ice model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-272

  Yang, Jiayan ^a   Huang, Rui Xin ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVECTIVE OVERTURNING; DECADAL OSCILLATIONS; FRESHWATER FLUX; INTERDECADAL OSCILLATION; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN-ICE-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; SEA ICE MODEL; SEA-ICE MODEL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL TIMESCALE; HEAT AND FRESHWATER FLUXES; HIGH LATITUDES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA ICE EXTENT; SUBHARMONIC OSCILLATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC SEA ICE MODEL;

ICE;

EID: 0029729781     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00013     Document Type: Article

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