High-frequency response of wind-driven currents measured by drifting buoys and altimetry over the world ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Rio, M H ^a   Hernandez, F ^a  

^a CLS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Drifting buoys; Eddy viscosity; Ekman current's modeling; Ekman depth; Rotary spectra

Indexed keywords

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; DRIFTER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GLOBAL OCEAN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

EID: 0345415069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001655     Document Type: Article

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