Idealized tracer transport models with time-varying transport: Applications to ocean boundary currents

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 235-255

  Terenzi, F ^a   Hall, Timothy M ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep western boundary current; Idealized analytic models; Ocean tracer transport

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; MODELING; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 75949120581     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-009-9135-6     Document Type: Article

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