Near-surface eddy dynamics in the southern ocean

Polar Research

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Trani, Marilisa ^a,b   Falco, Pierpaolo ^a   Zambianchi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctic circumpolar current; Eddy fluxes; Global Drifter Program data; Helmholtz decomposition; Lagrangian oceanography

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DATABASE; DRIFTER; EDDY; KINETIC ENERGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84865473662     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.11203     Document Type: Article

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