Study of the formation of North Pacific Intermediate Water by a general circulation model and the particle-tracking method 1. a pitfall of general circulation model studies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C3, 1999, Pages 5423-5439

  Kobayashi, Taiyo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; INTERMEDIATE WATER MASS; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033559888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900084     Document Type: Article

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