Pacific Upper Ocean Response to Global Warming-Climate Modeling in an Eddying Ocean Regime

Ocean Modeling in an Eddying Regime

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 265-279

  Sakamoto, Takashi T ^a   Hasumi, Hiroyasu ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ocean circulation Mathematical models; Oceanography Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPATIAL PATTERNS; SUBTROPICAL CELL; UPPER OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN CURRENTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 72149132457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/177GM17     Document Type: Chapter

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