On the physics of the Agulhas Current: Steady retroflection regimes

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2971-2985

  Dijkstra, H A ^a   de Ruijter, W P M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

STEADY RETROFLECTION REGIMES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; DEFLECTION; NUMERICAL METHOD; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

(SOUTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0035482766     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2971:OTPOTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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