Topographic preconditioning of open-ocean deep convection

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2196-2213

  Alverson, Keith ^a,b   Owens, W Brechner ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC CONVECTION; PRECONDITIONING; TAYLOR CAP; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

EID: 0030427931     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<2196:TPOOOD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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