Mapping Gulf Stream warm core rings from shipboard ADCP transects of the Oleander Project

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wei, Jun ^a,b   Wang, Dong Ping ^a   Flagg, Charles N ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; RADIOMETERS; SEAWATER; STREAM FLOW;

COLD POOL; FLOW PATTERN; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; RADIOMETER; SHELF BREAK; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WARM POOL; WATER EXCHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

NERIUM;

EID: 57549116354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004694     Document Type: Article

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