The general circulation responses of high-resolution North Atlantic Ocean models to synthetic scatterometer winds

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1747-1768

  Milliff, Ralph F ^a   Large, William G ^a   Holland, William R ^a   Mcwilliams, James C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELLING; HIGH-RESOLUTION QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODELS; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030439374     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<1747:TGCROH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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