Anticyclonic eddies in the Alaskan Stream

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 934-951

  Ueno, Hiromichi ^a   Freeland, Howard J ^b   Crawford, William R ^b   Onishi, Hiroji ^c   Oka, Eitarou ^a,d   Sato, Kanako ^a   Suga, Toshio ^a,e  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; GULF OF ALASKA; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; PLANETARY WAVES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROFILING FLOAT; PROPAGATION SPEED; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STEEPER SLOPES; WESTERN SUBARCTIC GYRE; WIND STRESS CURL;

WIND STRESS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

ANTICYCLONE; EDDY; GYRE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLANETARY WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; WAVE DISPERSION; WIND STRESS;

ALASKA; ALASKAN STREAM; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; GULF OF ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SITKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649945718     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3948.1     Document Type: Article

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