Monitoring the upper southeastern Atlantic transports using altimeter data

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 453-481

  Garzoli, Silvia L ^a,b   Goñi, Gustavo J ^c   Mariano, Arthur J ^c   Olson, Donald B ^c  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; CURRENT OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TOPEX/POSEIDON; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC, BENGUELA CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN, AGULHAS CURRENT;

EID: 0030670560     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/0022240973224355     Document Type: Article

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