Effects of adjusting vertical resolution on the eastern equatorial Pacific cold tongue

Acta Oceanologica Sinica

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 16-27

  Wu, Fanghua ^a,b   Liu, Hailong ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xuehong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cold tongue; Eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean; Ocean general circulation model; Vertical resolution

Indexed keywords

COLD POOL; HEAT FLUX; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); WORLD;

EID: 23044480470     PISSN: 0253505X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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