Lagrangian velocity distributions in a high-resolution numerical simulation of the North Atlantic

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1212-1220

  Bracco, Annalisa ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^b   Garraffo, Zulema D ^b   Provenzale, Antonello ^c  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAJECTORIES;

FLOAT TRAJECTORIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141744849     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(2003)020<1212:LVDIAH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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