Universal structure of mesoscale eddies in the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3677-3681

  Zhang, Zhengguang ^a   Zhang, Y ^b   Wang, Wei ^a   Huang, Rin Xin ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

geostrophic eddy; ocean; three dimensional structure; universal

Indexed keywords

CORIOLIS PARAMETER; GEOSTROPHIC EDDY; OCEAN; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; UNIVERSAL; UNIVERSAL STRUCTURES;

KINETICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARGO; BUOYANCY; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; PRESSURE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84880889567     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50736     Document Type: Article

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