Transport and variability of the Antarctic circumpolar current south of Africa

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Swart, Sebastiaan ^a   Speich, Sabrina ^b   Ansorge, Isabelle J ^a   Goni, Gustavo J ^c   Gladyshev, Sergey ^d   Lutjeharms, Johann R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 57049097629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004223     Document Type: Article

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