The role of preconditioning in the evolution of open-ocean deep convection

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1145-1166

  Noh, Yign ^a   Cheon, Woo Geun ^a   Raasch, Siegfried ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUOYANCY; HEAT CONVECTION; STORMS;

BUOYANCY FLUX;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OPEN OCEAN;

EID: 0037669748     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<1145:TROPIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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