Surface current patterns in the northern Adriatic extracted from high-frequency radar data using self-organizing map analysis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mihanović, Hrvoje ^c   Cosoli, Simone ^a   Vilibić, Ivica ^b   Ivankovi, Damir ^b   Dadić, Vlado ^b   Gačić, Miroslav ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^c Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; FREQUENCY BANDS; RADAR;

ADRIATIC; CHARACTERISTIC SURFACES; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; CURRENT PATTERNS; CURRENT STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; FORCING FUNCTION; GRID POINTS; HF RADARS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADAR; MAP ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGICAL MODEL; NORTHERN ADRIATIC; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SELF ORGANIZING; SURFACE CIRCULATION; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WIND DATA; WIND INFLUENCES;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

DATA SET; EPISODIC EVENT; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HYDROSTATICS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADAR; SELF ORGANIZATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 80052319899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007104     Document Type: Article

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