Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data

Chi Xu1, Xiao-Dong Shang1, Rui Xin Huang2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, 510301.

Scientific Reports
|June 18, 2014
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