Lagrangian transport through an ocean front in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1222-1237

  Mancho, Ana M ^a   Hernández García, Emilio ^b   Small, Des ^c   Wiggins, Stephen ^c   Fernández, Vicente ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES; HYPERBOLIC TRAJECTORIES; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORTS; LOBE DYNAMICS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OCEAN FRONTS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SURFACE CIRCULATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES; TRANSITION ZONES; TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; VELOCITY FIELDS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEANS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; FLOW MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC FRONT; WATER FLOW;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

EID: 63849198805     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3677.1     Document Type: Article

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