Ocean Research Enabled by Underwater Gliders

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 519-541

  Rudnick, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Biogeochemistry; Climate; Internal waves; Mesoscale; Sustained observations

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; INTERNAL WAVES; MESOSCALE; SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY CURRENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; MESOSCALE EDDY; RESEARCH METHOD; UNDERWATER VEHICLE; WAVE;

SEA WATER;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; MOTOR VEHICLE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

MOTOR VEHICLES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

EID: 84954306720     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-122414-033913     Document Type: Review

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