Tropical instability vortices in the Atlantic Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Foltz, Gregory R ^a   Carton, James A ^a   Chassignet, Eric P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Instability; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; INSTABILITY; MIXED LAYER; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VORTEX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 18544404495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jc001942     Document Type: Article

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