Meddies in the Mercator North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea eddy-resolving model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Drillet, Yann ^a,b   Bourdallé Badie, Romain ^a,b   Siefridt, Laurie ^a,b   Le Provost, Christian ^a,c  

^a MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^b CERFACS   (France)

^c LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSCALE EDDY;

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

EID: 19944410203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002170     Document Type: Article

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