Interactions of mesoscale Eddy and Western boundary current: A reduced-gravity numerical model study

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 271-282

  Chern, Ching Sheng ^a   Wang, Joe ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Eddy resolving model; Mesoscale eddy; Western boundary current

Indexed keywords

MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CURRENT;

EID: 22844441341     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-005-0037-z     Document Type: Article

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