Using motionally-induced electric signals to indirectly measure ocean velocity: Instrumental and theoretical developments

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 108-127

  Szuts, Zoltan B ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape hHatteras; Current measurement; Electric currents; Electric fields; Gulf stream; Motional induction; North carolina; USA; Velocity profilers

Indexed keywords

CAPE HHATTERAS; GULF STREAM; MOTIONAL INDUCTION; NORTH CAROLINA; USA; VELOCITY PROFILERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ERRORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

VELOCITY;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; HURRICANE; INSTRUMENTATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAWATER; THEORETICAL STUDY; VELOCITY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ARCTIC; CAPE HATTERAS; DENMARK STRAIT; HATTERAS ISLAND; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858281219     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.11.014     Document Type: Review

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