General circulation and intergyre dynamics in the eastern North Atlantic from a regional primitive equation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C10, 2001, Pages 22313-22329

  Penduff, Thierry ^a,c   Colin De Verdière, Alain ^b   Barnier, Bernard ^a  

^a LEGI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GYRE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; NUMERICAL METHOD;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035165128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000346     Document Type: Article

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