Water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean of a global isopycnal coordinate GCM

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1013-1045

  Marsh, Robert ^a   Nurser, A J George ^a   Megann, Alex P ^a   New, Adrian L ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0343167403     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2000)030<1013:WMTITS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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