The upper Bay of Bengal salinity structure in a high-resolution model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 74, Issue , 2014, Pages 36-52

  Benshila, Rachid ^a   Durand, Fabien ^b   Masson, Sébastien ^a   Bourdallé Badie, Romain ^c   de Boyer Montégut, Clement ^d   Papa, Fabrice ^b,e   Madec, Gurvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^d IFREMER   (France)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Bay of Bengal; Export of fresh water plume; High resolution ocean modeling; Salinity

Indexed keywords

BAY OF BENGAL; FRESH WATER; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HIGH-RESOLUTION OCEAN MODEL; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION PRODUCTS; SALINITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

WATER;

FRESHWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84891337188     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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