Left-hand rule for synoptic eddy feedback on low-frequency flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^a,b   Jin, Fei Fei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC FLOW; KEY PROCESS; LOW FREQUENCY; NCEP REANALYSIS; SCALE INTERACTIONS; VORTICITY FLUX;

VORTICITY;

ANTICYCLONE; CONVERGENCE; CYCLONE; EDDY; LOW FLOW; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY;

EID: 65649113603     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036435     Document Type: Article

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