Qualitative behavior and nonoscillation of Stommel's thermohaline box model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2768-2777

  Ruddick, Barry ^a,b   Zhang, Lingqi ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; OSCILLATIONS; SALINE EQUILIBRIUM; STOMMEL'S BOX MODEL; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0030391925     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2768:QBANOS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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