The Leeuwin Current in the Parallel Ocean Climate Model and applications to regional meteorology and fisheries

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 211-225

  Reason, C J C ^a   Gamble, D ^b   Pearce, A F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Marine Laboratories   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERIES; METEOROLOGY; TROPICS;

DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERDISCIPLINARY EXPERIMENT; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MODELING FEATURES; PARALLEL OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL FISHERY; MEANDER; MIXED LAYER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WIND STRESS;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037839011     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1350482799001255     Document Type: Article

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