Numerical simulations of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre: Sensitivity to boundary conditions

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 209-237

  Paiva, Alfonso M ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^a   Mariano, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; North Atlantic; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULATION MODELING; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033870030     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0265(00)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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