The response of the Sao Paulo continental shelf, Brazil, to synoptic winds

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-614

  Dottori, Marcelo ^a,b   Castro, Belmiro Mendes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Currents; Empirical orthogonal functions; Sao Paulo Continental Shelf; Subinertial frequencies; Winds

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WIND;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SUB-INERTIAL FREQUENCIES; SYNOPTIC WINDS; VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDROGRAPHY; OCEANIC CURRENT; WIND FORCING;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 68749092576     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0209-2     Document Type: Article

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