Vertical structure of the upper ocean from profiles fitted to physically consistent functional forms

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1985-2004

  González Pola, César ^a   Fernández Díaz, Julio M ^b   Lavín, Alicia ^c  

^a INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bay of Biscay; Differential evolution; Mixed layer depth; Seasonal thermocline; Upper ocean

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; TURBULENCE MODELS;

BAY OF BISCAY; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; MIXED LAYER DEPTH (MLD); SEASONAL THERMOCLINE; UPPER OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; CONDUCTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVOLUTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MIXED LAYER; OPTIMIZATION; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; TOPOLOGY; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF BISCAY;

EID: 35748956830     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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