Observed low frequency variability of the Brazil Current front

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Goni, Gustavo Jorge ^a   Bringas, Francis ^a,b   Dinezio, Pedro Nicolas ^a,b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WIND STRESS;

BRAZIL CURRENT; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; HEIGHT ANOMALY; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; LOW-FREQUENCY CHANGES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE DRIFTER; UPPER OCEAN WATER; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS; WIND STRESS CURL;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ABAMECTIN; DRIFTER; EDDY COVARIANCE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GYRE; LATITUDE; PERIODICITY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; SHELF BREAK; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); BRAZIL CURRENT; MALVINAS CURRENT;

EID: 80455125658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007198     Document Type: Article

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