A data assimilative perspective of oceanic mesoscale eddy evolution during VOCALS-REx

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3329-3344

  Subramanian, A C ^a   Miller, A J ^a   Cornuelle, B D ^a   Di Lorenzo, E ^b   Weller, R A ^c   Straneo, F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; HEAT BUDGET; MESOSCALE EDDY; NONLINEARITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VERTICAL MIXING; VORTEX;

VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 84875698055     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-3329-2013     Document Type: Article

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