Eddy impacts on the Florida Current

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-353

  Frajka Williams, E ^a   Johns, W E ^b   Meinen, C S ^c   Beal, L M ^b   Cunningham, S A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL TIME; EDDY ACTIVITY; FLORIDA CURRENT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME-SCALES; WIND FORCING;

OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE EDDY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TIMESCALE; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAHAMAS; FLORIDA CURRENT; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84874921503     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50115     Document Type: Article

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