Dynamical budgets of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current using ocean general-circulation models

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 607, 2005, Pages 833-860

  Grezio, A ^a   Wells, N C ^b   Ivchenko, V O ^b   de Cuevas, B A ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamical budgets; Eddies

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FLOW OF WATER; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND STRESS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (ACC); DYNAMICAL BUDGETS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; TRANSIENT EDDY REYNOLDS STRESSES (TERSS);

CLIMATOLOGY;

EDDY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 27644548097     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.213     Document Type: Article

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