A triply nested ocean model for simulating the Kuroshio - Roles of horizontal resolution on JEBAR

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 146-169

  Guo, Xinyu ^a   Hukuda, Hisashi ^b   Miyazawa, Yasumasa ^b   Yamagata, Toshio ^c  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute for Global Change Research   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; WIND STRESS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

EAST CHINA SEA; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141787141     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0146:ATNOMF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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