The Cape Cauldron: A regime of turbulent inter-ocean exchange

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-86

  Boebel, Olaf ^a,b,c   Lutjeharms, Johann ^c   Schmid, Claudia ^d   Zenk, Walter ^e   Rossby, Tom ^b   Barron, Charlie ^f  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; STORMS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

INTER OCEAN EXCHANGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CURRENT VELOCITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0037218213     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00379-X     Document Type: Article

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