Evidence for submesoscale barriers to horizontal mixing in the ocean from current measurements and aerial photographs

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1975-1983

  Gildor, Hezi ^a   Fredj, Erick ^b   Steinbuck, Jonah ^c   Monismith, Stephen ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; CLIMATE MODEL; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADAR; MIXING PROCESS; NEW APPROACHES; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEAN MIXING; OCEAN SUBMESOSCALE; PARAMETERIZED; SURFACE CURRENT;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; MIXING; PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CLIMATE MODELING; DISPERSION; MIXING; RADAR;

EID: 70349736181     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4116.1     Document Type: Article

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