Forced planetary wave response in a thermocline gyre

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1036-1055

  Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION MODELING; GYRE; PLANETARY WAVE; THERMOCLINE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032750724     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<1036:FPWRIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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