Surface heat flux parameterization and the response of ocean general circulation models to high-latitude freshening

S. B. Power; R. Kleeman

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v46i1.15437

Surface heat flux parameterization and the response of ocean general circulation models to high-latitude freshening

Tellus

Volume 46 (1994): Issue 1

By: S. B. Power and R. Kleeman

Open Access

|Jan 1994

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