An anticyclonic circulation above the Northwest Georgia Rise, Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Meredith, Michael P ^a   Watkins, Jon L ^b   Murphy, Eugene J ^b   Cunningham, Nathan J ^b   Wood, Andrew G ^b   Korb, Rebecca ^b   Whitehouse, Mick J ^b   Thorpe, Sally E ^b   Vivier, Frédéric ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BATHYMETRY; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; STORMS;

ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS; BATHYMETRIC FEATURES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; GEORGIA BASINS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; BATHYMETRY;

ANTICYCLONE; COLUMN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; STRATIFIED FLOW;

NORTHWEST GEORGIA RISE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 1342290115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018039     Document Type: Article

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