Investigation of land ice-ocean interaction with a fully coupled ice-ocean model: 1. Model description and behavior

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Goldberg, D N ^a   Little, C M ^b   Sergienko, O V ^c   Gnanadesikan, A ^d   Hallberg, R ^e   Oppenheimer, M ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHELF; ICE STREAM; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84863490309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002246     Document Type: Article

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