Can Pacific Ocean thermocline depth anomalies be simulated by a simple linear vorticity model?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1786-1806

  Perkins, M L ^a   Holbrook, N J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; ISOTHERMS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

VORTICITY;

TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; THERMOCLINE; VORTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035388689     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<1786:CPOTDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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