Statistics of geostrophic turbulence in the southern ocean from satellite altimetry and numerical models

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 98, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 599-613

  Stewart, Robert H ^a   Shum, C K ^b   Tapley, Byron ^b   Ji, Link ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; Numerical models; Ocean; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001654295     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2789(96)00103-0     Document Type: Article

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