Intermediate water in the Brazil-Malvinas Confluence Zone: A Lagrangian view

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C9, 1999, Pages 21063-21082

  Boebel, Olaf ^a   Schmid, Claudia ^b   Podestá, Guillermo ^c   Zenk, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; INTERMEDIATE WATER MASS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL-MALVINAS CONFLUENCE;

EID: 0033567609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900059     Document Type: Review

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