A global isopycnal OGCM: Validations using observed upper-ocean variabilities during 1992-93

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 706-725

  Hu, Dingming ^a   Chao, Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL PROFILE;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032716639     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<0706:AGIOVU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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