Near-surface structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current derived from World Ocean Circulation Experiment drifter data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Falco, P ^a   Zambianchi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; BICUBIC-SPLINE; DATA SETS; DIFFUSIVITIES; E-FOLDING; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EXPONENTIAL FORM; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTEGRAL PARAMETERS; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN OBSERVATIONS; MEAN FLOW; NEAR-SURFACE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE TRANSPORT; VERTICAL CURRENT; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DATA SET; DIFFUSIVITY; DRIFTER; KINETIC ENERGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; VOLUME; ZONAL FLOW;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79957482972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006349     Document Type: Article

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