Ageostropic transport in the upper layers of the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4619-4622

  Garzoli, Silvia L ^a   Molinari, Robert L ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; WIND; GEOPHYSICS;

EKMAN RELATION;

GEOPHYSICS; EARTH SCIENCES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; EKMAN LAYER; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UPPER OCEAN; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; UPPER LAYER; ZONAL MEANS;

EID: 0035894816     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013473     Document Type: Article

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