Warm-core eddies studied by laboratory experiments and numerical modeling

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 431-435

  Rubino, Angelo ^a   Brandt, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICS; WATER;

BURGER NUMBERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX; WARM POOL; WATER MASS;

EID: 0141744885     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<0431:WCESBL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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