Brazil Current surface circulation and energetics observed from drifting buoys

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Oliveira, Leopoldo R ^a   Piola, Alberto R ^b   Mata, Mauricio M ^a   Soares, Ivan D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; KINETIC ENERGY; STATISTICS;

BAROTROPIC; BRAZIL CURRENT; BRAZIL-MALVINAS CONFLUENCE; DRIFTING BUOYS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; MEAN FIELD; MEAN FLOW; MEAN VELOCITIES; PER UNIT; REGIONAL FEATURE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE DRIFTER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CONFLUENCE; DRIFTER; EDDY; ENERGETICS; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL CURRENT; BRAZIL-MALVINAS CONFLUENCE;

EID: 72649093215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004900     Document Type: Article

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