Circulation in the Ona Basin, southern Drake passage

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Barré, Nicolas ^a   Provost, Christine ^a   Sennechael, Nathalie ^a   Lee, Jae Hak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

DRAKE PASSAGE;

EID: 46849117530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004549     Document Type: Article

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