Ocean general circulation model sensitivity to forcing from scatterometer winds

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 11337-11358

  Milliff, Ralph F ^a   Large, William G ^a   Morzel, Jan ^a   Danabasoglu, Gokhan ^a   Chin, Toshio M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE SENSOR; SCATTEROMETER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WIND; WIND FORCING;

EID: 0033562277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998jc900045     Document Type: Article

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