Calculating the water and heat balances of the Baltic Sea using ocean modelling and available meteorological, hydrological and ocean data

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 400-414

  Omstedt, Anders ^a   Nohr, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; HEAT BUDGET; MODELING; SALINITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 3843098410     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2004.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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