Tracer leakage from modeled Agulhas rings

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1387-1399

  de Steur, L ^a   van Leeuwen, P J ^a   Drijfhout, S S ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); UNSTEADY FLOW;

LAGRANGIAN BOUNDARIES; TRACER LEAKAGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CIRCULATION MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MIXING; THERMOCLINE; TRACER;

EID: 3242668114     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<1387:TLFMAR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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