Potential vorticity structure across the gulf stream: Observations and a PV-Gradient model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 637-644

  Logoutov, O ^a   Sutyrin, G ^a   Randolph Watts, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); STORMS; SURFACE WAVES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV) STRUCTURES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT VELOCITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 0035245849     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<0637:PVSATG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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