Bifurcation of the subtropical south equatorial current against New Caledonia in December 2004 from a hydrographic inverse box model

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2072-2084

  Ganachaud, Alexandre ^a,b   Gourdeau, Lionel ^a   Kessler, William ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); OCEAN CURRENTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY CURRENTS; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; RECIRCULATIONS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TRANSPORT ESTIMATES; WESTWARD CURRENT;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

BIFURCATION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; COASTAL CIRCULATION; COASTAL CURRENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GYRE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; JET; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

CORAL SEA; FIJI; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); VANUATU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 58049131465     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3901.1     Document Type: Article

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