Transient response in a Z-level ocean model that resolves topography with partial cells

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3248-3270

  Pacanowski, Ronald C ^a   Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 0033063129     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<3248:TRIAZL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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