Simulation of frontal eddies on the East Florida Shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Fiechter, Jerome ^a   Mooers, Christopher N K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS;

FRONTAL EDDIES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; FLORIDA CURRENT; MODEL VALIDATION; STRAITS OF FLORIDA; TRANSLATION SPEED;

GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; EDDY; FRONTAL FEATURE; MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA SHELF;

EID: 0942289045     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018307     Document Type: Article

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