Mean circulation and internal variability in an ocean primitive equation model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 559-580

  Drijfhout, Sybren ^a,b   Heinze, Christoph ^a   Latif, Mojib ^a   Maier Reimer, Ernst ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; DENSITY ANOMALIES; OCEAN PROMITIVE EQUATION MODEL; OSCILLATIONS;

EID: 0029853699     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<0559:MCAIVI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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