Modeling the Gulf Stream system: How far from reality?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3155-3158

  Chao, Yi ^a   Gangopadhyay, Avijit ^a   Bryan, Frank O ^b,c   Holland, William R ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Center Atmospheric Research

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW OF WATER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GULF STREAM CURRENT SYSTEMS; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CIRCULATION MODELLING; OGCM; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC, GULF STREAM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM REGION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; MODEL CONFIGURATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN MODEL SIMULATIONS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

EID: 0030291949     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03003     Document Type: Article

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