Horizontal scales of variability over the middle Atlantic bight shelf break and continental rise from finescale observations

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 222-230

  Todd, Robert E ^a   Gawarkiewicz, Glen G ^a   Brechner Owens, W ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL RISE; DOMINANT WAVELENGTH; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL VARIABILITY; MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCE; PRIMARY SOURCES; SPATIAL SCALE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS;

OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CONTINENTAL RISE; MEANDER; PERIODICITY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF BREAK; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT;

EID: 84874975169     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-099.1     Document Type: Article

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