Recent trends in the Southern Ocean eddy field

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 257-267

  Hogg, Andrew McC ^a   Meredith, Michael P ^b   Chambers, Don P ^c   Abrahamsen, E Povl ^b   Hughes, Chris W ^d,e   Morrison, Adele K ^a,f  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Southern Ocean Eddies

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; EDDY COVARIANCE; KINETIC ENERGY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TIMESCALE; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84979244651     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010470     Document Type: Article

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