Long range transport of a quasi isolated chlorophyll patch by an Agulhas ring

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Lehahn, Yoav ^a,b   D'Ovidio, Francesco ^c   Lévy, Marina ^c   Amitai, Yael ^d   Heifetz, Eyal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AMBIENT WATERS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; EDDY TRANSPORTS; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; LAGRANGIAN; LATERAL MIXING; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE EDDY; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEA SURFACES; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; VERTICAL MIXING;

CHLOROPHYLL;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL; CURRENT RING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CURRENT; PATCHINESS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL MIXING;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 80052224832     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048588     Document Type: Article

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