Finescale shear at 1660 and 2850 dbar over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Eastern Brazil Basin

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1281-1292

  Duda, Timothy F ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CATCHMENTS; CORRELATION METHODS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; TIDES;

BUOYANCY FREQUENCIES; DATASETS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIDAL MODULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR; TIDE; WAVE GENERATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL BASIN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 2942541002     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1281:FSAADO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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