Jet structure and scaling in Southern Ocean models

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1143-1155

  Sinha, Bablu ^a   Richards, K J ^b  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; JET; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SCALE EFFECT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032724032     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1143:JSASIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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