Observations of entry and exit of potential vorticity at the sea surface

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2280-2294

  Czaja, Arnaud ^a   Hausmann, Ute ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC BASIN; DIABATIC; ENTRY AND EXIT; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACES; SURFACE WINDS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY;

VORTICITY;

CLIMATOLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WIND; THEORETICAL STUDY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 73949124356     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4024.1     Document Type: Article

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