Vertical vorticity balance in meanders downstream the Agulhas retroflection

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1740-1744

  Ochoa, José ^a   Niiler, Peter P ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC TURN; OCEANIC FRONT; RETROREFLECTION;

FLOW OF WATER; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; VORTICITY; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

FRONTAL FEATURE; OCEANIC FRONT; VORTICITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 34447542035     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3064.1     Document Type: Article

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