Pathways of cross-frontal exchange in the North Atlantic Current

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C11, 2001, Pages 26917-26928

  Dutkiewicz, Stephanie ^a,b   Rothstein, Lewis ^a   Rossby, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRONTAL FEATURE; JET STREAM; WATER EXCHANGE;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035207507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000089     Document Type: Article

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