The Southern Ocean's grip on the northward meridional flow

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 223-247

  Nof, D ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIND;

THERMOHALINES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

INTERMEDIATE WATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0038712242     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(03)00005-3     Document Type: Review

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