Low-frequency variability in shallow-water models of the wind-driven ocean circulation. Part II: Time-dependent solutions

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 729-752

  Simonnet, Eric ^a   Ghil, Michael ^b   Ide, Kayo ^b   Temam, Roger ^a,c   Wang, Shouhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); FREQUENCIES; WIND STRESS;

SHALLOW-WATER MODELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIFURCATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW WATER; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141526321     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)33<729:LVISMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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