Differences between observed and a coupled simulation of North Atlantic sea surface currents and temperature

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Molinari, Robert L ^a,b   Garraffo, Zulema ^a   Snowden, Derrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW SEPARATION; FLOW SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

AMPLITUDE; GYRE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREND ANALYSIS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM; LABRADOR SEA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 57049108785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004848     Document Type: Article

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