Box modeling of the Eastern Mediterranean sea

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1519-1531

  Ashkenazy, Yosef ^a   Stone, Peter H ^b   Malanotte Rizzoli, Paola ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Box model; Deep water formation; Eastern Mediterranean transition; Mediterranean sea

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BOX MODELS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRANSITIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84655161383     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.08.026     Document Type: Article

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