The ocean general circulation near 1000-m depth

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 384-409

  Ollitrault, Michel ^a   De Verdière, Alain Colin ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Circulation Dynamics; Currents; Dynamics; Large scale motions; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING ZONAL JETS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS; LARGE-SCALE MOTIONS; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

KINETICS;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POISSON RATIO; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84892661733     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-13-030.1     Document Type: Article

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