Year-to-year reoutcropping of eighteen degree water in an eddy-resolving ocean simulation

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1189-1204

  Kwon, Young Oh ^a   Park, Jong Jin ^b   Gary, Stefan F ^c   Susan Lozier, M ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c Scottish Association for Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Circulation Dynamics; Ocean circulation; Water masses

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

EDDY-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; EIGHTEEN DEGREE WATER; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WATER MASS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OUTCROP; SURFACE WATER; WATER MASS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84941296018     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-14-0122.1     Document Type: Article

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