Dynamics of the North Brazil current retroflection region from the Western Tropical Atlantic experiment observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 28559-28583

  Da Silveira, Ilson C A ^a   Brown, Wendell S ^a   Flierl, Glenn R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEANDERING; CURRENT RING; FLOW STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH BRAZIL CURRENT;

EID: 0034475124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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