Direct observations of the current structure east of the Bahamas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1127-1130

  Hacker, Peter ^a,c   Firing, Eric ^a,c   Douglas Wilson, W ^b,d   Molinari, Robert ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UH/JIMAR   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COASTAL ZONES; DOPPLER EFFECT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; BAHAMAS; WATER COLUMN;

OCEAN CURRENTS; DOPPLER EFFECT;

CURRENT OBSERVATIONS; CURRENT STRUCTURE; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; SOUTHWARD TRANSPORT; VELOCITY PROFILES;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHWEST);

ABSOLUTE VELOCITIES; CURRENT STRUCTURE; DEEP WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; DOPPLER PROFILERS; LOWERED ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

EID: 0029666518     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01031     Document Type: Article

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