Quasi-zonal jets in 3-D Argo data of the northeast Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Van Sebille, Erik ^a   Kamenkovich, Igor ^a   Willis, Josh K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ARGO FLOAT; DENSITY PROFILE; HORIZONTAL PLANES; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; SIMPLE SEARCH ALGORITHM; VERTICAL PLANE; ZONAL JETS;

ALGORITHM; ALTIMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY CURRENT; JET STREAM; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 79551602920     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046267     Document Type: Article

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