Rediscovering the second core of the Atlantic NECC

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 1-15

  Urbano, D F ^a   Jochum, M ^b   da Silveira, I C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ITCZ; NECC; Sverdrup; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WIND STRESS;

INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT (NECC); SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COUNTERCURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 29144492266     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2005.04.003     Document Type: Article

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