How well does a coarse-resolution circulation model simulate observed interannual variability in the upper Indian Ocean?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1485-1488

  Schiller, Andreas ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND STRESS; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

BATHYTHERMOGRAPH; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; UPPER OCEAN;

INDIAN OCEAN;

CIRCULATION MODELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPHS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

EID: 0033562210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900291     Document Type: Article

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