Collision of anticyclonic, lens-like eddies with a meridional western boundary

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 24881-24890

  Sansón, L Zavala ^a,b   Graef, F ^a   Pavia E G ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; COLLISION ZONE; EDDY; FLOW MODELING;

EID: 0032532910     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02547     Document Type: Article

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