Amplification of a surface-intensified eddy drift along a steep shelf in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1729-1741

  Sutyrin, Georgi ^a   Stegner, Alexander ^b   Taupier Letage, Isabelle ^c   Teinturier, Samuel ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DRIFTING VELOCITY; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; PERTURBATION THEORY; STEEPNESS PARAMETER; TWO-LAYER SYSTEMS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ANTICYCLONE; CONTINENTAL RISE; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FLOW PATTERN; MESOSCALE EDDY; SHELF SEA; VORTICITY;

AFRICA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 67949103662     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4106.1     Document Type: Article

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