On the size and distribution of rings and coherent vortices in the Sargasso Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Luce, David L ^a   Rossby, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DOPPLER EFFECT; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPEED; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

A-CENTER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; AXISYMMETRIC; COHERENT VORTICES; CURRENT VECTORS; GAUSSIAN VORTICES; GULF STREAM; NEW JERSEY; RELATIVE VORTICITY; UPPER OCEAN CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ANTICYCLONE; GAUSSIAN METHOD; OCEANIC CURRENT; VORTEX;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; GULF STREAM; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; SARGASSO SEA; UNITED STATES;

NERIUM;

EID: 69049101969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004171     Document Type: Article

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