The drifting confluence zone

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2429-2448

  Lebedev, Ivan ^a,b   Nof, Doron ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; CONFLUENCE ZONE; CURRENT SEPARATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC, (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 0030422946     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1996)026<2429:TDCZ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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