Atmospheric loading and the oceanic "Inverted barometer" effect

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-107

  Wunsch, Carl ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OBSERVATIONS; OCEANIC RESPONSE; THEORY;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROMETERS; GRAVITY WAVES; MECHANICAL WAVES; RESONANCE; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC LOADING; BAROTROPIC MODE; DISPERSION CURVES; INTERNAL MODES; RESONANT RESPONSE; STATIC RESPONSE; STRATIFIED OCEAN; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0030970453     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RG03037     Document Type: Article

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