A Scheme to identify loops from trajectories of oceanic surface drifters: An application in the kuroshio extension region

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1167-1176

  Dong, Changming ^a   Liu, Yu ^b,c   Lumpkin, Rick ^d   Lankhorst, Matthias ^e   Chen, Dake ^f   Mcwilliams, James C ^a   Guan, Yuping ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Data processing; Eddies; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; CYCLONIC EDDY; EDDIES; EDDY SIZE; GEOMETRIC DEFINITION; KUROSHIO; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; MEAN VELOCITIES; SEASONAL SCALE; SPINNING SPEED; SURFACE DRIFTER; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS;

TRAJECTORIES;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DRIFTER; EDDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 82655173409     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05028.1     Document Type: Article

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