Investigation of the North Brazil Current retroflection and North Equatorial Countercurrent variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Fonseca, Carlos A ^a,b   Goni, Gustavo J ^b   Johns, William E ^a   Campos, Edmo J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

4231 Oceanography: General: Equatorial oceanography; 4275 Oceanography: General: Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689); 4512 Oceanography: Physical: Currents; 4520 Oceanography: Physical: Eddies and mesoscale processes; 4576 Oceanography: Physical: Western boundary currents

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOPHYSICS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; WIND STRESS; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MERIDIONAL MIGRATION; NORTH BRAZIL CURRENT (NBC); NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT (NECC);

OCEAN CURRENTS; LOCATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

BAROCLINIC TRANSPORT; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MAXIMUM TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL MIGRATION; NORTH BRAZIL CURRENTS; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WIND STRESS CURL;

EID: 13244287989     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020054     Document Type: Article

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