Variability at intermediate depths at the equator in the Atlantic Ocean in 2000-06: Annual cycle, equatorial deep jets, and intraseasonal meridional velocity fluctuations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1794-1806

  Bunge, Lucia ^a,b   Provost, Christine ^a   Hua, Bach Lien ^c   Kartavtseff, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A PLANES; ANNUAL CYCLES; ATLANTIC OCEANS; CURRENT METERS; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITIES; INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; INTRA-SEASONAL FLUCTUATIONS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGES; PHASE PROPAGATION; PLANE WAVES; SEASONAL CYCLES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME SPANS; VELOCITY AMPLITUDES; VELOCITY COMPONENTS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELASTIC WAVES; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; JETS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PHASE METERS;

VELOCITY;

CURRENT VELOCITY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 65649106242     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3781.1     Document Type: Article

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