An observed 20-year time series of Agulhas leakage

Ocean Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 601-609

  Le Bars, D ^a   Durgadoo, J V ^b   Dijkstra, H A ^a   Biastoch, A ^b   De Ruijter, W P M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; FLOW MODELING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; LEAKAGE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TIME SERIES;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84903986438     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-10-601-2014     Document Type: Article

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