Sub-mesoscale ocean vortex trains in the Luzon strait

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Zheng, Quanan ^a,b   Lin, Hui ^b   Meng, Junmin ^b,c   Hu, Xiaomin ^c   Song, Y Tony ^d   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b   Li, Chunyan ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; DYNAMIC MODELS; FLOW VELOCITY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VORTEX FLOW;

CURRENT VELOCITY; CYCLONE; ENVISAT-1; RADAR IMAGERY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROSSBY NUMBER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VORTEX; VORTEX SHEDDING;

ASIA; EURASIA; LUZON STRAIT;

EID: 46849113647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004362     Document Type: Article

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