Three-dimensional oceanic eddy analysis in the Southern California Bight from a numerical product

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Dong, Changming ^a   Lin, Xiayan ^b,c   Liu, Yu ^b,c   Nencioli, Francesco ^d   Chao, Yi ^e,f   Guan, Yuping ^b   Chen, Dake ^g   Dickey, Tommy ^h   McWilliams, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Yunnan Institute of Geological Environment Monitoring   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY DETECTION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GEOSTROPHIC BALANCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOVING PATH; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; OCEANIC EDDIES; RESEARCH RESULTS; ROSSBY NUMBERS; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRONG WINDS; SUB-MESOSCALE EDDIES;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EDDY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY NUMBER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862955668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007354     Document Type: Article

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