Historical position of the North Atlantic Current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue C8, 1998, Pages 15509-15524

  Kearns, Edward J ^a   Rossby, H Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; PATH ANALYSIS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

EID: 0032528603     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jc00370     Document Type: Article

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