An extraordinary breach of the Gulf Stream north wall by a cold water intrusion

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2002, Pages

  Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Donato, Timothy F ^b,c   Zheng, Quanan ^c   Pichel, William G ^a   Clemente Colón, Pablo ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

COLD WATERS; GULF STREAM; NOAA AVHRR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHELF WATERS; WIND DATA; WIND EVENTS; WIND MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0346036045     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015378     Document Type: Article

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