Oceans and ocean models as seen by current meters

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Holloway, Greg ^a   Nguyen, An ^b   Wang, Zeliang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CURRENT METERS; DATA SETS; EVALUATING MODELS; GRID REFINEMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER LATITUDES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; PARAMETERIZED;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; EDDY; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 80053599937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007044     Document Type: Article

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