On the surface circulation in the western Coral Sea and residence times in the Great Barrier Reef

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Choukroun, Sverine ^a,b   Ridd, Peter V ^a   Brinkman, Richard ^b   McKinna, Lachlan I W ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-SPEED; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; NORTH QUEENSLAND; QUEENSLAND; RESIDENCE TIME; SATELLITE TRACKED DRIFTERS; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE VELOCITY; TRAVEL TIME; VANUATU; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WESTWARD FLOW;

REEFS;

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RESIDENCE TIME; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; VANUATU;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77954524619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005761     Document Type: Article

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