Eddies in the southwestern East/Japan Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1233-1242

  Lee, Dong Kyu ^a   Niiler, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddy detection and tracking; Japan East sea circulation; Ulleung Warm Eddy

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOPS; CLOSED-LOOP STRUCTURES; COASTAL CURRENTS; DETECTION RATES; DOK COLD EDDY; EAST KOREAN WARM CURRENTS; EAST/JAPAN SEAS; EDDY DETECTION; EDDY MOTIONS; ENERGY PROPAGATION; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; JAPAN/EAST SEAS; LAGRANGIAN; LOCAL SAMPLING; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; PATH LINES; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SURFACE STREAMLINES; TIME VARIABLE; ULLEUNG BASIN; WARM EDDY;

OCEAN CURRENTS; SAMPLING;

VORTICITY;

COASTAL CURRENT; CURRENT MEANDERING; DATA INTERPRETATION; DRIFTER; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE EDDY; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VORTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; ULLEUNG BASIN;

EID: 77956833210     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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