Global tidal residual mean circulation: Does it affect a climate OGCM?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Bessières, Laurent ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^b   Lyard, Florent ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL OCEAN CLIMATE MODEL; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; TIDAL RESIDUAL MEAN CIRCULATION;

TIDES;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC TIDE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STOKES FORMULA; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; TIDAL CURRENT; TIDAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; MALVINAS CURRENT; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 41849101451     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032644     Document Type: Article

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