Water mass export from Drake Passage to the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans: A Lagrangian model analysis

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1206-1222

  Friocourt, Yann ^a,b   Drijfhout, Sybren ^b   Blanke, Bruno ^a   Speich, Sabrina ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; TURBULENCE; WATER WAVES; WIND STRESS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT SYSTEM; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; WATER MASS EXPORT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERMEDIATE WATER; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

DRAKE PASSAGE; WORLD;

EID: 24944585432     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2748.1     Document Type: Article

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