A model-based assessment and design of a tropical Indian Ocean mooring array

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3269-3283

  Oke, Peter R ^a   Schiller, Andreas ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOORING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; SURFACE MOORING ARRAY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARRAY; CIRCULATION MODELING; DESIGN; MIXED LAYER; MOORING SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 34547100959     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4170.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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