Identification of the mechanism of interdecadal variability in the North Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2792-2807

  te Raa, Lianke ^a   Gerrits, Jeroen ^a,b   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Systems Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY; MODULAR OCEAN MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN BASIN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DECADAL VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 13644269757     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2655.1     Document Type: Article

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