Intermediate and deep currents of the Black Sea obtained from autonomous profiling floats

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 17-19, 2006, Pages 1901-1910

  Korotaev, G ^a   Oguz, T ^b   Riser, S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Black sea; Deep currents; Mesoscale activity; Profiling floats; Topographic control

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; STORMS; TOPOLOGY;

BLACK SEA; DEEP CURRENTS; MESOSCALE ACTIVITY; PROFILING FLOATS; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CYCLONE; DEEP SEA; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA LEVEL;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

EID: 33748894900     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.04.017     Document Type: Article

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