Construction of the adjoint MIT ocean general circulation model and application to Atlantic heat transport sensitivity

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C12, 1999, Pages 29529-29547

  Marotzke, Jochem ^a,b   Giering, Ralf ^a,c   Zhang, Kate Q ^a,d   Stammer, Detlef ^a,e   Hill, Chris ^a   Lee, Tong ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHOD; CIRCULATION MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033573434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900236     Document Type: Article

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