How potentially predictable are midlatitude ocean currents?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Nonaka, Masami ^a   Sasai, Yoshikazu ^a   Sasaki, Hideharu ^a   Taguchi, Bunmei ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LATITUDE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; OCEAN CURRENT; UNCERTAINTY; WEATHER;

EID: 84956682706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20153     Document Type: Article

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