The atmospheric ocean: Eddies and jets in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1885, 2008, Pages 4529-4541

  Thompson, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic circumpolar current; Mesoscale eddies; Zonal jets

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERICS; JETS; STORMS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; MESOSCALE EDDIES; STORM TRACKS; WIND FORCING; ZONAL JETS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

SEA WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; SEA; WIND;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WIND;

EID: 55849095677     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0196     Document Type: Article

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