Nonlinear vorticity balance of the Subantarctic Front in the southeast Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Chereskin, T K ^a   Talley, L D ^a   Sloyan, B M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DOPPLER EFFECT; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPEED;

BAROTROPIC; CURRENT SPEED; DOPPLER; DRAKE PASSAGE; EAST PACIFIC RISE; LOWERED ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; MEAN FLOW; RELATIVE VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VORTICITY BALANCE; VORTICITY STRUCTURE; WAVE SPEED;

VORTICITY;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ADVECTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; NONLINEARITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; VORTICITY; WAVELENGTH;

DRAKE PASSAGE; EAST PACIFIC RISE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 77954497629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005611     Document Type: Article

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