Oceanic climatology in the coupled model FGOALS-g2: Improvements and biases

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 819-840

  Lin, Pengfei ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a   Liu, Hailong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

FGOALS g2; ocean circulation; oceanic climatology; salinity; temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876445382     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-2137-1     Document Type: Article

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