Spin-up and adjustment of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and global pycnocline

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 167-189

  Allison, Lesley C ^a   Johnson, Helen L ^b   Marshall, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DEEP WATER FORMATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; PYCNOCLINE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND FORCING; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 82355174701     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: 15439542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/002224011798765330     Document Type: Article

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