Chaotic advection in an archipelago

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1988-2006

  Rypina, Irina I ^a   Pratt, Lawrence J ^a   Pullen, Julie ^b   Levin, Julia ^c   Gordon, Arnold L ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHAOTIC ADVECTION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THEORY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SURFACE FLOW PATTERNS; VELOCITY FIELD;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; ARCHIPELAGO; MIXING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 78049318507     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JPO4336.1     Document Type: Article

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