Eulerian and Lagrangian eddy statistics of the Tasman Sea and southwest Pacific Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Chiswell, Stephen M ^a   Rickard, Graham J ^a   Bowen, Melissa M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DRIFTER; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

EID: 37349053706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004110     Document Type: Article

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