Multiple thermal fronts near the Patagonian shelf break

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Franco, Bárbara C ^a,b   Piola, Alberto R ^a,b   Rivas, Andrés L ^c,d   Baldoni, Ana ^e   Pisoni, Juan P ^b,c  

^a Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO PESQUERO INIDEP   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; POTENTIAL FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTICITY;

INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF BREAK FRONT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); MALVINAS CURRENT; PATAGONIAN SHELF;

EID: 40849098620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032066     Document Type: Article

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