Sources of eddy energy simulated by a model of the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2283-2293

  Shore, Jennifer ^a   Stacey, Michael W ^a   Wright, Daniel G ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FREQUENCY BANDS; LANDFORMS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITIES; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITIES; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; DATA ASSIMILATIONS; EAST COASTS; ENERGY SOURCES; GULF OF ALASKA; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTIONS; MEAN FLOWS; MODEL DYNAMICS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTH COASTS; NORTH PACIFIC; NUMERICAL MODELS; PACIFIC OCEANS; SPATIAL SCALES; WAVE NUMBERS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 57849158679     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3800.1     Document Type: Article

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