Seasonal variation of eddy kinetic energy of the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent simulated by an eddy-resolving OGCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Noh, Yign ^a   Yim, Bo Young ^a   You, Sung Hyup ^b,c   Yoon, Jong Hwan ^b   Qiu, Bo ^d  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VELOCITY; KINETIC ENERGY;

EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUBTROPICAL COUNTERCURRENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COUNTERCURRENT; EDDY; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34250747500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL029130     Document Type: Article

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