Employing satellite-derived sea ice concentration to constrain upper-ocean temperature in a global ocean GCM

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4498-4513

  Stössel, Achim ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SEA ICE;

GLOBAL OCEANS; ICE CONCENTRATIONS; ICE SHELVES; ICE SIMULATION; OCEAN PROPERTIES; PIXEL RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UPPER-OCEAN TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL MIXING;

ICE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 53649088632     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2256.1     Document Type: Article

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