Subtropical to subpolar pathways in the North Atlantic: Deductions from Lagrangian trajectories

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Burkholder, Kristin C ^a   Lozier, M Susan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DEEP-WATER FORMATION; DENSITY SURFACES; EULERIAN; GULF STREAM; HIGH LATITUDES; LAGRANGIAN; LAGRANGIAN OBSERVATIONS; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; LAUNCH LOCATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN MODEL; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SUBTROPICAL WATER; SURFACE DRIFTER; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

TROPICS;

DEEP WATER; DRIFTER; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; FLOW FIELD; GYRE; LATITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATER EXCHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79960921488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006697     Document Type: Article

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