Anisotropic material transport by eddies and eddy-driven currents in a model of the North Atlantic

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3162-3175

  Kamenkovich, Igor ^a   Berloff, Pavel ^b,c   Pedlosky, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; DEEP OCEAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLES; MATERIAL TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARTICLE DISPERSION; RATE OF CHANGE; SHEAR DISPERSION; SPREADING RATE; SUBPOLAR GYRES; ZONAL JETS;

ANISOTROPY; DISPERSIONS; EDDY CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANISOTROPY; EDDY; GYRE; JET FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77952484383     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4239.1     Document Type: Article

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