Monitoring the Faroe Current using altimetry and coastal sea-level data

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 859-868

  Hátún, Hjálmar ^a   McClimans, Thomas A ^b  

^a Faroese Fisheries Laboratory   (Faroe Islands)

^b SINTEF OCEAN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Correlation analyses; Faroe Current; Geostrophy; Slope current; Water level

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; MONITORING; OCEAN;

ALTIMETRY; CURRENT; MONITORING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 0038609529     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(03)00059-1     Document Type: Article

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