Heat budget in the Gulf Stream region: The importance of heat storage and advection

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1214-1231

  Dong, Shenfu ^a   Kelly, Kathryn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENTHALPY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RADIO ALTIMETERS; THERMODYNAMICS;

INTERANNUAL TIME SCALES; INTERANNUAL VARIATIONS; SURFACE HEAT FLUX;

HEAT STORAGE;

HEAT BALANCE; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMICS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 1642267655     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1214:HBITGS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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