Deep, cross-equatorial eddies

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 273-310

  Borisov, Sergey ^a,b   Nof, Doron ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Parasoft Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy splitting; Inter hemispheric exchange; Particle trajectories; Potential vorticity alteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005223850     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091929808221150     Document Type: Article

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