Quantification and characterization of mesoscale eddies with different automatic identification algorithms

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISSUE 65, 2013, Pages 2077-2082

  Viikmäe, Bert ^a   Torsvik, Tomas ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Current driven transport; Eulerian velocity field; Okubo Weiss parameter; Vortex detection; Winding angle method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CURRENT VELOCITY; DETECTION METHOD; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE EDDY; VORTEX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BERGEN; GULF OF FINLAND; HORDALAND; NORWAY; RAUNEFJORDEN;

EID: 84883808517     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI65-351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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