Thermohaline variability: the effects of horizontal resolution and diffusion

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 709-715

  Fanning, Augustus F ^a   Weaver, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0031872969     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0709:TVTEOH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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