ACCESS-OM: The ocean and sea-ice core of the ACCESS coupled model

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 213-232

  Bi, Daohua ^a   Marsland, Simon J ^a   Uotila, Petteri ^a   O'Farrell, Siobhan ^a   Fiedler, Russell ^a   Sullivan, Arnold ^a   Griffies, Stephen M ^b   Zhou, Xiaobing ^c   Hirst, Anthony C ^a  

^a Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; OVERTURN; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AUSTRALIA; DRAKE PASSAGE;

EID: 84882339458     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6301.014     Document Type: Article

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