A thermal oscillation under a restorative forcing

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 547, 1998, Pages 793-809

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Chu, Peter C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Interdecadal oscillations; Restorative forcing; Rossby waves; Thermal circulation

Indexed keywords

GCM; OCEAN; OSCILLATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0031849964     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54706     Document Type: Article

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