Dipole rings and vortex interactions of the Brazil current

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1323-1330

  Hooker, Stanford B ^a   Brown, James W ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; STORMS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND EFFECTS;

DIPOLE RINGS; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 0030286525     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.544561     Document Type: Article

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