Southern Ocean jets and how to find them: Improving and comparing common jet detection methods

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4318-4339

  Chapman, Christopher C ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; fronts; jets; Southern Ocean; wavelets

Indexed keywords

JETS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; FRONTS; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WAVELETS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

DETECTION METHOD; DIFFUSION; EDDY; JET; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SIGNAL; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; THRESHOLD; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84906245886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009810     Document Type: Article

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