Lagrangian assessment of simulated surface current dispersion in the coastal ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Ohlmann, J Carter ^a   Mitarai, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ECOLOGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COASTAL OCEAN; EULERIAN; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV; LAGRANGIAN; LAUNCH LOCATION; MARINE ECOLOGY; MODEL PERFORMANCE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PARTICLE POSITION; S-STATISTIC; SAMPLED DATA; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; SURFACE CURRENT;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 77956790171     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044436     Document Type: Article

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