Responses of the tropical Pacific to wind forcing as observed by spaceborne sensors and simulated by an ocean general circulation model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 101, Issue C7, 1996, Pages 16345-16359

  Liu, W Timothy ^a   Tang, Wenqing ^a   Atlas, Robert ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECMWF; MICROWAVE IMAGER; OCEAN RESPONSE; OCEANIC RESPONSE; OGCM; SATELLITE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SSM/I; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030467998     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JC01347     Document Type: Article

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