On the seasonal variability and eddies in the North Brazil Current: Insights from model intercomparison experiments

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 195-230

  Barnier, Bernard ^a   Reynaud, Thierry ^a   Beckmann, Aike ^b   Böning, Claus ^d   Molines, Jean Marc ^a   Barnard, Sally ^c   Jia, Yanli ^c  

^a Institut de Mecanique de Grenoble   (France)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EDDY CURRENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRICTION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH BRAZIL CURRENT;

EID: 0034965043     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00005-2     Document Type: Review

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