An assessment of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ocean model with coarse resolution: Annual-mean climatology

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C11, 1999, Pages 25623-25645

  Jiang, Shi ^a,b   Stone, Peter H ^a   Malanotte Rizzoli, Paola ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 17044379798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900095     Document Type: Article

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