Eddies and variability in the Mozambique Channel

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 12-13, 2003, Pages 1987-2003

  Schouten, Mathijs W ^a,c   De Ruijter, Wilhelmus P M ^a   Van Leeuwen, Peter Jan ^a   Ridderinkhof, Herman ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CHANNEL; CURRENT VELOCITY; MESOSCALE EDDY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

INDIAN OCEAN; MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL;

EID: 0038348426     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00042-0     Document Type: Article

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