The deep interior downwelling, the veronis effect, and mesoscale tracer transport parameterizations in an OGCM

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2945-2961

  Lazar, Alban ^a,b   Madec, Gurvan ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; DOWNWELLING; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 0033493623     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<2945:TDIDTV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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