Wind-driven circulation for the eastern North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre from Argo data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Fraile Nuez, Eugenio ^a   Hernández Guerra, Alonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIND;

GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT STREM FUNCTION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PROFILING FLOATS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

EID: 33645820635     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025122     Document Type: Article

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