Predicting the thermocline in a circulation model of the North Sea - Part I: Model description, calibration and verification

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-146

  Pohlmann, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; EDDY DIFFUSIVITY; EDDY VISCOSITY; THERMOCLINE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0029752551     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-4343(95)90885-S     Document Type: Article

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