Estimating geostrophic shear from seismic images of oceanic structure

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1149-1154

  Sheen, Katy L ^a   White, Nicky ^a   Caulfield, C P ^b   Hobbs, Richard W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurements effects; Baroclinic flows; Currents; Diapycnal mixing; Ocean dynamics; South Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; BAROCLINIC FLOWS; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; OCEAN DYNAMICS; SOUTH ATLANTIC;

ESTIMATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

SHEAR FLOW;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE MOTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR FLOW; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); FALKLAND TROUGH; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 82655181751     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05012.1     Document Type: Article

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