Poleward heat transport in the ocean: A review of a hierarchy of models of increasing resolution

Kirk Bryan

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v43i4.15400

Poleward heat transport in the ocean: A review of a hierarchy of models of increasing resolution

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 43 (1991): Issue 4

By: Kirk Bryan

Open Access

|Jan 1991

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