A kinetic energy budget and internal instabilities in the fine resolution Antarctic model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-22

  Ivchenko, V O ^a   Treguier, A M ^b   Best, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Satellite   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION MODELLING; FINE RESOLUTION ANTARCTIC MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0030985277     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0005:AKEBAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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