Climatological baroclinic forcing of the barotropic flow in the East Greenland Current in Farm Strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Schlichtholz, Pawel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC MOTION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; OCEANIC CURRENT; VORTICITY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT; WORLD;

EID: 26444541853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002701     Document Type: Article

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