The southward transport of sub-mesoscale lenses of Bass Strait Water in the centre of anti-cyclonic mesoscale eddies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Baird, Mark E ^a   Ridgway, Ken R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENSE SHELF WATER; EAST COAST; HEIGHT ANOMALY; INDIAN OCEAN; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; REANALYSIS; SHELF WATERS; SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ANTICYCLONE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIAMETER; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA; BASS STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84856496221     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050643     Document Type: Article

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