Absolutely referenced geostrophic velocity and transport on a section across the North Atlantic Current

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 309-322

  Meinen, Christopher S ^a   Randolph Watts, D ^a   Allyn Clarke, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute transport; Absolute velocity; Acoustic doppler current profiler; ADCP; CTD; North Atlantic current; POGO transport float

Indexed keywords

CURRENT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0343819747     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00061-8     Document Type: Article

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