Comparing idealized and complex topographies in quasigeostrophic simulations of an antarctic circumpolar current

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1821-1837

  Nadeau, Louis Philippe ^a   Straub, David N ^b   Holland, David M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; DRAKE PASSAGE; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC SIMULATIONS; RECIRCULATION GYRE; TOPOGRAPHY SIMULATION;

EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GYRE; OCEANIC CURRENT; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DRAKE PASSAGE; SCOTIA RIDGE;

EID: 84883785685     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0142.1     Document Type: Article

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