Application of a barotropic model to North Atlantic synoptic sea level variability

Journal of Marine Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 451-469

  Greatbatch, Richard J ^a   Lu, Youyu ^a,b   De Young, Brad ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC MODEL; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SMALL TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0029982935     PISSN: 00222402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1357/0022240963213501     Document Type: Article

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