Review Article: "The Lagrangian description of aperiodic flows: A case study of the Kuroshio Current"

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 449-472

  Mendoza, C ^a,b   Mancho, A M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MATEMÁTICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ALTIMETER; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867762649     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-19-449-2012     Document Type: Article

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