The Atlantic Equatorial Undercurrent: PIRATA observations and simulations with GFDL Modular Ocean Model at CPTEC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Giarolla, Emanuel ^a   Nobre, Paulo ^a   Malagutti, Marta ^a   Pezzi, Luciano Ponzi ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; STRESS ANALYSIS; WIND;

EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENT (EUC); FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; WIND STRESSES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 22444451099     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022206     Document Type: Article

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