The rossby radius in the arctic ocean

Ocean Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 967-975

  Nurser, A J G ^a   Bacon, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; EDDY COVARIANCE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOMOGENEITY; HYDROGRAPHY; ROSSBY WAVE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84916605818     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-10-967-2014     Document Type: Article

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