Observations of irminger sea anticyclonic eddies

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 805-823

  Fan, Xue ^a   Send, Uwe ^a   Testor, Pierre ^b   Karstensen, Johannes ^c   Lherminier, Pascale ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; IRMINGER CURRENTS; MESOSCALE ANTICYCLONIC EDDIES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; REYKJANES RIDGES; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

GLIDERS; MOORING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ANTICYCLONE; GYRE; KINEMATICS; MESOSCALE EDDY; MOORING SYSTEM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IRMINGER SEA;

EID: 84878898055     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: 15200485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0155.1     Document Type: Article

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