Real-time tracking of a galician Meddy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1877-1880

  Paillet, Jérôme ^a,c   Le Cann, B ^b,d   Serpette, A ^a,c   Morel, Y ^a,c   Carton, X ^a,c  

^a SHOM   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c EPSHOM/CMO   (France)

^d Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Satellite   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; HYDROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

GALICIA; HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; LAGRANGIAN FLOATS; QUASI-STATIONARY; REAL TIME; REAL TIME TRACKING;

EARTH SCIENCES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GALICIA; HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES; MEDDY;

EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; REAL TIME;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0344560612     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900378     Document Type: Article

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