Altimeter-Based Estimates of Eddy Variability and Eddy Transports in the Subpolar North Atlantic

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 472-503

  Brath, Manfred ^a   Scharffenberg, Martin G ^a   Serra, Nuno ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

eddy kinetic energy; eddy transports; Satellite altimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655171486     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.488921     Document Type: Article

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