Modeling the deep eddy field in the southwestern Mediterranean: The life cycle of Sardinian eddies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Testor, P ^a   Beranger K ^b,c   Mortier, L ^b,c  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Oceanographie et du Climat: Experimentation et Approches Numeriques   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP EDDY FIELD; LARGE SCALE CYCLONIC GYRE; SARDINIAN EDDIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 24944432159     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022283     Document Type: Article

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