Impacts of ocean gateway and basin width on Tertiary tropical climate variability in a prototype model

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 155-164

  An, Soon Il ^a   Park, Jae Heung ^a   Kim, Baek Min ^b   Timmermann, Axel ^c   Jin, Fei Fei ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; OCEAN WAVE; PALEOCLIMATE; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84855535594     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-011-0469-x     Document Type: Article

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