Nine years of mass transport data in the eastern boundary of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Fraile Nuez, Eugenio ^a   MacHín, Francisco ^b   Vélez Belchí, Pedro ^a   López Laatzen, Federico ^a   Borges, Rafael ^c   Benítez Barrios, Verónica ^c   Hernández Guerra, Alonso ^c  

^a Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS TRANSFER; OCEAN HABITATS; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; CURRENT METERS; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; INTERANNUAL; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; MASS TRANSPORT; MEDITERRANEAN WATERS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OSCILLATORY MODE; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT ESTIMATES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER MASS; ZERO VALUES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; GYRE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSPORT; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER FLOW; WATER MASS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANARY ISLANDS; LANZAROTE; LAS PALMAS; SPAIN;

EID: 77957590308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006161     Document Type: Article

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