Formation and pathways of intermediate water in the Parallel Ocean Circulation Model's Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Schouten, Mathijs W ^a,b   Matano, Ricardo P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CIRCULATION MODELING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; FORMATION MECHANISM; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WATER MASS;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 33751077301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002357     Document Type: Article

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