A global ocean mesh to overcome the North Pole singularity

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 381-388

  Madec, Gurvan ^a   Imbard, Maurice ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; MESH LINE; MODEL; OCEAN; OCEAN MESH; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN, NORTH POLE;

EID: 0030377894     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00211684     Document Type: Article

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