Response of a simplified oceanic general circulation model to idealized NAO-like stochastic forcing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3182-3192

  Herbaut, Christophe ^a   Sirven, J ^a   Fevrier S ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; OSCILLATIONS; WIND STRESS;

SUBPOLAR GYRES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND FORCING;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036880273     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<3182:ROASOG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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