Three-dimensional reconstruction of oceanic mesoscale currents from surface information

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Isern Fontanet, Jordi ^a   Lapeyre, Guillaume ^b   Klein, Patrice ^a   Chapron, Bertrand ^a   Hecht, Matthew W ^c  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTICITY;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 57149090582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004692     Document Type: Article

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