Labrador Sea Water tracked by profiling floats - From the boundary current into the Open North Atlantic

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 573-584

  Fischer, Jürgen ^a   Schott, Friedrich A ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

SUBTROPICS;

SEAWATER;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; DRIFTER; TRACKING;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 0036478864     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0573:LSWTBP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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