Quasisynchronous observations of the gulf stream frontal zone with almaz-1 sar and measurements taken on board the R/V akademik vernadsky

Global Atmosphere and Ocean System

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-272

  Grodsky, Semyon ^a,b   Kudryavtsev, Vladimir ^a   Ivanov, Andrey ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

SAR; The gulf stream signature; Wave; Wave refraction

Indexed keywords

FRONTAL FEATURE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034447693     PISSN: 10236732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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