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A brief review of the characteristics of oceanic general circulation models (OGCMs) is presented, followed by a discussion of some aspects of the response of particular OGCMs to climatological and to variable atmospheric forcing. Furthermore the possibility of multiple steady states for the oceanic circulation is addressed.
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Lemke, P. (1987). Some Aspects of Ocean Circulation Models. In: Nicolis, C., Nicolis, G. (eds) Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences. NATO ASI Series, vol 192. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4778-8_21
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