Five years of Florida current structure and transport from the Royal Caribbean cruise ship explorer of the Seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Beal, Lisa M ^a   Hummon, Julia M ^b   Williams, Elizabeth ^a   Brown, Otis B ^a   Baringer, Warner ^a   Kearns, Edward J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND EFFECTS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; BAROCLINIC MODE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHELF BREAK; SHELF WAVE; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; NORTHWEST PROVIDENCE CHANNEL; STRAITS OF FLORIDA;

EID: 46849103271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004154     Document Type: Article

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