The interannual variability of the surface eddy kinetic energy in the Labrador Sea

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 295-311

  Luo, Hao ^a   Bracco, Annalisa ^a   Di Lorenzo, Emanuele ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER DATA; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CURRENT SYSTEM; BOUNDARY CURRENTS; CENTRAL BASIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CURRENTS FLOWING; DEEP CONVECTION; EAST GREENLAND CURRENTS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GREENLAND; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LABRADOR SEA; LOCAL MEASUREMENT; MODEL DOMAINS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION INDICES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OCEAN MODEL; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATIONS; VORTEX FORMATION; WEST COAST; WEST GREENLAND;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; SHEAR FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

KINETICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVECTION; DATA SET; EDDY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VORTEX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 80052456677     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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