Spatiotemporal Variability of the Surface Circulation in the Western Mediterranean: A Comparative Study Using Altimetry and Modeling

The Mediterranean Sea: Temporal Variability and Spatial Patterns

Volumn 9781118847343, Issue , 2014, Pages 5-23

  Pascual, Ananda ^a   Vidal Vijande, Enrique ^a   Ruiz, Simón ^a   Somot, Samuel ^b   Papadopoulos, Vassilis ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eddy kinetic energy (EKE); Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis; NEMOMED8 simulation; Ocean modeling; Satellite altimetry; Spatiotemporal variability; Surface circulation; Western Mediterranean (WMED)

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; KINETIC ENERGY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SATELLITES;

EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; NEMOMED8 SIMULATION; OCEAN MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE CIRCULATION; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

KINETICS;

EID: 84927683290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118847572.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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