Diagnosing the role of eddies in driving the circulation of the northwest Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Zhai, Xiaoming ^a   Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Sheng, Jinyu ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

4512 Oceanography: Physical: Currents; 4520 Oceanography: Physical: Eddies and mesoscale processes; 4532 Oceanography: Physical: General circulation

Indexed keywords

EDDY CURRENTS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STREAM FLOW;

EDDY-DRIVEN CIRCULATION; GULF STREAM JET; MESOSCALE EDDY FIELDS; MODEL DRIFT;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 16644392669     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021146     Document Type: Article

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