A statistical theory for the "patchiness" of open-sea deep convection: The effect of preconditioning

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 599-626

  Dibattista, Mark T ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^a   Marshall, John ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OPEN-OCEAN CONVECTION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CYCLONE; GYRE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036478848     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0599:ASTFTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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