Design of a multiply nested primitive equation ocean model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1054-1079

  Ginis, I ^a   Richardson, R A ^a   Rothstein, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; GCM; HURRICANE; OCEAN MODEL;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0031692889     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1054:DOAMNP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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