Large structures and temporal change in the Azores Front during the SEMAPHORE experiment

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 25009-25027

  Tychensky, A ^a   Le Traon, P Y ^b   Hernandez, F ^b   Jotirdan, D ^a  

^a Section de Géodésie Géophysique   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; FRONTAL FEATURE; OCEANIC FRONT; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES FRONT;

EID: 17344385152     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC00782     Document Type: Article

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