Eulerian and Lagrangian velocity distributions in the North Atlantic

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2327-2336

  LaCasce, J H ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VELOCITY;

SUBSURFACE CURRENT METERS; SUBSURFACE FLOATS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VELOCITY PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CURRENT VELOCITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 31944451414     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO2833.1     Document Type: Article

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