On the sensitivity of global warming experiments to the parametrisation of sub-grid scale ocean mixing

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 875-893

  Wiebe, E C ^a   Weaver, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; COUPLING; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0033399620     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820050319     Document Type: Article

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