Seasonality of the submesoscale dynamics in the Gulf Stream region

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 923-941

  Mensa, Jean Alberto ^a   Garraffo, Zulema ^b   Griffa, Annalisa ^a,c   Özgökmen, Tamay Mehmet ^a   Haza, Angelique ^a   Veneziani, Milena ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageostrophic dynamics; Frontogenesis; Gulf Stream; HYCOM; Mixed layer instabilities; Multi scale; Seasonality; Submesoscale

Indexed keywords

FRONTOGENESIS; GULF STREAM; HYCOM; MIXED LAYER; MULTI-SCALE; SEASONALITY; SUBMESOSCALE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

DYNAMICS;

COORDINATE; FRONTAL FEATURE; FRONTOGENESIS; MIXED LAYER; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84881236778     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0633-1     Document Type: Article

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