Global interior eddy available potential energy diagnosed from Argo floats

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1651-1656

  Roullet, Guillaume ^a   Capet, Xavier ^b   Maze, Guillaume ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Argo floats; eddy available potential energy; interior turbulence

Indexed keywords

KINETICS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ARGO FLOAT; CUMULATIVE DENSITY FUNCTIONS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE ACTIVITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TURBULENT BEHAVIOR;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

ARGO; EDDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84895776268     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059004     Document Type: Article

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