Use of breeding to detect and explain instabilities in the global ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Hoffman, M J ^a   Kalnay, E ^a   Carton, J A ^a   Yang, S C ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; BREEDING METHOD; CONVERGENCE ZONES; ENERGY ANALYSIS; ENERGY EQUATION; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN EDDIES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; REANALYSIS; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONVERSION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

WIND POWER;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONVERGENCE; DETECTION METHOD; EDDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; INSTABILITY; KINETIC ENERGY; PERTURBATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; WIND WAVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 68749118193     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037729     Document Type: Article

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