Scale interaction between tropical instability waves and low-frequency oceanic flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kug, Jong Seong ^c   Ham, Yoo Geun ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^b   Kang, In Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; VORTICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EDDY STRUCTURES; LOW-FREQUENCY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SCALE INTERACTIONS; THERMAL PROCESS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; VORTICITY FLUX;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 79953244462     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041020     Document Type: Article

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