A Dataset of Global Ocean Surface Currents for 1999-2007 Derived from Argo Float Trajectories: A Comparison with Surface Drifter and TAO Measurements

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-102

  Jiping, Xie ^a   Jiang, Zhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Argo floats; surface currents; surface drifter; the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean program

Indexed keywords

ARGO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DRIFTER; GLOBAL OCEAN; MAPPING; OCEANIC CURRENT; TRAJECTORY;

EID: 77952952981     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2009.11446780     Document Type: Article

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