Multi-year meanders and eddies in the Alaskan Stream as observed by TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1025-1028

  Crawford, W R ^a   Cherniawsky, J Y ^a   Foreman, M G G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; EDDY; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; DATA REDUCTION; RADIO ALTIMETERS; STREAM FLOW;

AVERAGE DIAMETER; CYCLONIC EDDY; GULF OF ALASKA; SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTI-CYCLONIC EDDIES;

EID: 0034353270     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002399     Document Type: Article

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