Eddy forcing of the mean flow in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C2, 2001, Pages 2713-2722

  Hughes, Chris W ^a,c   Ash, Ellis R ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY; FLOW FIELD; JET; SATELLITE DATA;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0035076554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc900332     Document Type: Article

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