Analysis of ocean turbulence using adaptive CVE on altimetry maps

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 482-494

  Nieves, V ^a   Turiel, A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent Vortex Extraction; Microcanonical Multifractal Formalism; Ocean turbulence; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

2D TURBULENCES; COHERENT VORTEX EXTRACTION; MICROCANONICAL MULTIFRACTAL FORMALISM; OCEAN TURBULENCE; OCEANIC TURBULENCES; SEPARATION CRITERIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; WAVELETS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

TURBULENCE;

ALTIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MAP; MAPPING METHOD; TURBULENCE; VORTEX; WAVELET;

EID: 67349238186     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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