Stress-driven thermohaline loops

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Yuan, Shaoyu ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRANDTL NUMBER; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WIND STRESS;

DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONFIGURATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; THERMOHALINE LOOPS;

THERMOANALYSIS;

STRESS;

EID: 21244474373     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1927887     Document Type: Article

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