An ocean model's response to North Atlantic Oscillation-like wind forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4521-4524

  Visbeck, Martin ^a   Cullen, Heidi ^a   Krahmann, Gerd ^a   Naik, Naomi ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

OSCILLATION-LIKE WIND FORCING; WINTER WIND ANOMALY PATTERN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; SUBPOLAR GYRES; WIND ANOMALIES; WIND FORCING;

WIND; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WIND FORCING;

EID: 0032535414     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900162     Document Type: Article

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