A Greenland Sea perspective on the dynamics of postconvective Eddies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2755-2771

  Oliver, K I C ^a,c   Eldevik, T ^b   Stevens, D P ^a   Watson, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT VORTICES; CYCLONIC GYRES; DEEP OCEANS; DENSE WATERS; DENSITY GRADIENTS; FRACTURE ZONES; GREENLAND; GREENLAND SEAS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN CIRCULATIONS; OPEN OCEANS; SURFACE CYCLONES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DYNAMICS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; EDDY; GYRE; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CONVECTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTICITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 65549086175     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3844.1     Document Type: Article

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