Decadal variability of circulation in the Arctic ocean retrieved from climatological data by a variational method

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Nechaev, Dmitri ^a   Yaremchuk, Max ^b   Ikeda, Motoyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Decadal variability; Finite elements; Inverse modeling

Indexed keywords

DECADAL VARIATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRESHWATER INPUT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 3042835500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002JC001740     Document Type: Article

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