Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Nilsen, J E O ^a,b   Gao, Y ^a   Drange, H ^a,b,c   Furevik, T ^b,c   Bentsen, M ^a,c  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; OSCILLATIONS;

MASS EXCHANGES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ISOPYCNAL LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0043285332     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016597     Document Type: Article

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