The Potiguar Eddy: a subsurface anticyclone associated with the North Brazil Undercurrent at 4ºS
In this dissertation we describe a newly discovered subsurface frontal meander of the North Brazil Undercurrent (NBUC), centered at about 4ºS, 36.5ºW, hereafter Potiguar Eddy (PE). The Potiguar Eddy is an elliptically-shaped eddy, with major and minor axes of approximately 330 and 130 km, with a...
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Universidade de São Paulo
2015
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| Online Access: | http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/21/21135/tde-29042015-090550/ |