The correlation between surface drifters and coherent structures based on high-frequency radar data in Monterey Bay

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 3-5, 2009, Pages 161-172

  Shadden, Shawn C ^a   Lekien, Francois ^b   Paduan, Jeffrey D ^c   Chavez, Francisco P ^d   Marsden, Jerrold E ^e  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperiodic flows; Chaotic transport; Coastal radar; Drifters; Lagrangian coherent structures; Lyapunov exponents

Indexed keywords

APERIODIC FLOWS; CHAOTIC TRANSPORT; COASTAL RADAR; DRIFTERS; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LYAPUNOV EXPONENTS;

CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; RADAR; RADAR STATIONS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRIFTER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MESOSCALE MOTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349208975     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.08.008     Document Type: Article

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