Lagrangian circulation of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the subtropical South Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 545-564

  Núñez Riboni, Ismael ^a   Boebel, Olaf ^a   Ollitrault, Michel ^b   You, Yuzhu ^c   Richardson, Philip L ^d   Davis, Russ ^e  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STORMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANTARTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER (AAIW); SOUTH ATLANTIC CURRENT MEANDERS; SPACE-TIME MEASUREMENTS; VOLUME TRANSPORTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERMEDIATE WATER; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16344373229     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2004.12.006     Document Type: Article

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