Role of Meso-Scale Eddies on Circulation in the South Eastern Arabian Sea in 2009

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 319-333

  Rao, A Raghunadha ^a   Rao, G Nageswara ^a   Sreenivas, P ^b   Kumar, P V Hareesh ^a  

^a NAVAL PHYSICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

circulation; Eddies; Laccadive High; sea surface height anomaly; Southeastern Arabian Sea; WICC

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ALTIMETER; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLIMATOLOGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MONSOON; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SPATIAL DATA;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84881646467     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2013.811448     Document Type: Article

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