Comparison of thermally driven circulations from a depth-coordinate model and an isopycnal-layer model. Part I: Scaling-law sensitivity to vertical diffusivity

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 590-605

  Park, Young Gyu ^a,b   Bryan, Kirk ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0034092055     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<0590:COTDCF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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