Changing currents: A strategy for understanding and predicting the changing ocean circulation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1980, 2012, Pages 5461-5479

  Bryden, Harry L ^a   Robinson, Carol ^b   Griffiths, Gwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ocean processes; Patterns of climate change; Strategic marine research; Sustained observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COST EFFECTIVE DESIGN; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; FOCUSED FIELDS; MARINE RESEARCH; MARINE SCIENCE; NEW ENERGY SOURCES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN PROCESS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROCESS MODELLING; SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84870021426     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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