A magnetic fluid laboratory model of the global buoyancy and wind-driven ocean circulation: Experiments

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-147

  Hart, J E ^a   Kittelman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Laboratory model of the ocean circulation; Wind and buoyancy driven circulation

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER;

GLOBAL BUOYANCY; MAGNETIC FLUID LABORATORY MODEL; WIND-DRIVEN OCEAN CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BUOYANCY; LABORATORY METHOD; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 33646498333     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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