A Visible Record of Eddies in the Southern Mozambique Channel

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 957-959

  Quartly, Graham D ^a   Srokosz, Meric A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll concentrations; Eddies; Feature tracking; Madagascar; Mozambique Channel; Retroflection

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DATA REDUCTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HYDROLOGY;

RETROFLECTION;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 0242627523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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