The impact of lateral boundary conditions and horizontal resolution on North Atlantic water mass transformations and pathways in an isopycnic coordinate ocean model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 137-159

  Smith, Linda T ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^a   Bleck, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULATION MODELING; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RESOLUTION; WATER MASS;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034004922     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0137:TIOLBC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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