Autonomous underwater gliders monitoring variability at choke points in our ocean system: A case study in the Western Mediterranean Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Heslop, Emma E ^a   Ruiz, Simón ^a   Allen, John ^b,c   López Jurado, José Luís ^d   Renault, Lionel ^e   Tintoré, Joaquín ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

^e SCOCIB ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; GLIDERS; OCEAN HABITATS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER GLIDERS; CHOKE POINTS; COMPLEX PATTERN; CRITICAL LOCATION; FISH STOCK; HIGH FREQUENCY; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN SYSTEM; TIME-SCALES; WATER MASS; WATER TRANSPORT; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SET; EDDY; FISH CULTURE; FORECASTING METHOD; GLIDING; OCEAN BASIN; OCEAN WAVE; SPAWNING GROUND; SPAWNING POPULATION; TIMESCALE; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNDERWATER VEHICLE; WATER; WATER MASS;

IBIZA CHANNEL; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84868628532     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053717     Document Type: Article

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