Improving estimates of the antarctic circumpolar current streamlines in drake passage

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1000-1010

  Lenn, Yueng Djern ^a,b   Chereskin, Teresa K ^a   Sprintall, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER EFFECT; DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MAPS; MECHANICS; METEOROLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER (ADCP); AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (ACC); DATA SETS; DRAKE PASSAGE; EDDY FLUXES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MEAN CURRENTS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); QUIESCENT ZONES; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA-SURFACE-HEIGHT (SSH); SOUTHERN OCEAN (SO); STREAM FUNCTIONS; SURFACE HEIGHTS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TOPOGRAPHIC CONTROLS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 45749131091     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3834.1     Document Type: Article

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