Modeling 1993-2008 climatology of seasonal general circulation and thermal structure in the Great Lakes using FVCOM

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-63

  Bai, Xuezhi ^a   Wang, Jia ^b   Schwab, David J ^b   Yang, Yi ^a,c   Luo, Lin ^a   Leshkevich, George A ^b   Liu, Songzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NOAA GREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Hainan Marine Development Plan and Design Institute   (China)

Author keywords

FVCOM; General circulation; Great Lakes; Modeling; Thermal structure

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL CIRCULATION; CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; FINITE-VOLUME COASTAL OCEAN MODELS; FVCOM; GENERAL CIRCULATION; GREAT LAKES; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS;

LAKES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GYRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE; LAKE HURON; LAKE MICHIGAN; LAKE ONTARIO; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 84875832187     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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