Data quality control for vessel mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler. Application for the Western Mediterranean Sea

Scientia Marina

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 417-430

  Garcia Gorriz E ^a,c   Font, J ^a   Candela, J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADCP; Data reliability; GPS; Horizontal currents determination; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

GARCIA;

EID: 0001797971     PISSN: 02148358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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