The Gent-McWilliams parameterization: 20/20 hindsight

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 2-9

  Gent, Peter R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate models; Mesoscale eddies; Parameterization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; CONTROL SIMULATION; GENT-MCWILLIAMS PARAMETERIZATION; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN MODEL; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; WORKING GROUPS;

CLIMATE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETERIZATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 79960237246     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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