Lateral stirring of large-scale tracer fields by altimetry

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 61-78

  Dencausse, Guillaume ^a   Morrow, Rosemary ^a   Rogé, Marine ^a   Fleury, Sara ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

Antarctic circumpolar current; Lagrangian advection; Mesoscale; Oceanic fronts; Sea surface salinity; Sea surface temperature; Submesoscale

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; LAGRANGIAN; MESOSCALE; OCEANIC FRONTS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SUBMESOSCALE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; ALTIMETRY; GLOBAL OCEAN; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC FRONT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACER;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TASMANIA;

EID: 84892674860     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0671-8     Document Type: Article

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