Circulation characteristics in three eddy-permitting models of the North Atlantic

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 123-161

  Willebrand, Jürgen ^a   Barnier, Bernard ^b   Böning, Claus ^a   Dieterich, Christian ^a   Killworth, Peter D ^c   Le Provost, Christian ^b   Jia, Yanli ^c   Molines, Jean Marc ^b   New, Adrian L ^c  

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

^b LEGI   (France)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; MARINE ENGINEERING;

EDDY-PERMITTING MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034965102     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(01)00003-9     Document Type: Review

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