Evidence of time-mean cyclonic cell southwest of Iberian Peninsula: The Mediterranean Outflow-driven β-plume?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Lamas, Luísa ^a   Peliz, Álvaro ^a   Ambar, Isabel ^a   Aguiar, Ana Barbosa ^a   Maximenko, Nikolai ^b   Teles Machado, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MODELING STUDIES; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; PLUME DYNAMICS; RECIRCULATION CELLS; RECIRCULATIONS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SURFACE DRIFTER; SVERDRUP TRANSPORT; TIME-AVERAGED; VELOCITY FIELD;

CYCLONE; DATA SET; HYDROGRAPHY; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; PLUME; RECIRCULATING SYSTEM; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77954398095     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043339     Document Type: Article

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