Pacific subtropical-tropical thermocline water exchange in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ocean model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C5, 1999, Pages 11065-11076

  Huang, Boyin ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; THERMOCLINE; WATER EXCHANGE;

(SUBTROPICAL); (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 1342323798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900024     Document Type: Article

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