Identification of jets and mixing barriers from sea level and vorticity measurements using simple statistics

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 44-57

  Hughes, Chris W ^a   Thompson, Andrew F ^b   Wilson, Chris ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jet; Kurtosis; Meander; Mixing; Sea level; Skewness; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; KURTOSIS; MEAN CURRENTS; MEANDER; MODEL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; SIMPLE METHOD; SIMPLE MODEL; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; JETS; MIXING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VORTICITY;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DIFFUSIVITY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JET; MEANDER; MIXING; OCEANIC CURRENT; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SKEWNESS;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 73649136073     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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