Modeling geographic impacts on early Eocene ocean temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2002, Pages

  Najjar, Raymond G ^a   Nong, Giang T ^a   Seidov, Dan ^a   Peterson, William H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

DEEP OCEAN WATER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC IMPACTS; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; THERMAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036705507     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014438     Document Type: Article

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