Origin of the annual to decadal peaks of variability in the response of simple ocean models to stochastic forcing

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2146-2157

  Sirven, Jérôme ^a   Herbaut, Christophe ^a   Deshayes, Julie ^a   Frankignoul, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL;

OCEAN MODELS; REDUCED-GRAVITY OCEAN MODEL; ROSSBY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; EKMAN LAYER; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STOCHASTICITY; TIMESCALE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34848892406     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3095.1     Document Type: Article

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