Anticyclonic eddies and Kuroshio meander formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2025-2028

  Mitsudera, Humio ^a   Waseda, Takuji ^a   Yoshikawa, Yasushi ^b   Taguchi, Bunmei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

MEANDER FORMATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ANTICYCLONE; EDDY; MEANDER;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035874403     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012668     Document Type: Article

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