The Internal Structure, Seasonality, and Generation Mechanisms of Surface North Brazil Current Rings

In the western tropical Atlantic, the North Brazil Current retroflection periodically sheds large anticyclonic rings, which then propagate northwestward. Between 1998 and 2000, the North Brazil Current Rings Experiment sampled a large number of these rings by shipboard and moored acoustic Doppler cu...

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Main Author: Castelao, Guilherme
Format: Others
Published: Scholarly Repository 2011
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Online Access:http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/703