On the propagation of oceanic mesoscale vortices

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 380, Issue , 1999, Pages 39-57

  Radko, Timour ^a   Stern, Melvin E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; SPEED; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CORIOLIS PARAMETER; OCEANIC MESOSCALE VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 0032649709     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112098003371     Document Type: Article

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