Concurrent altimeter and infrared observations of Rossby wave propagation near 34° N in the Northeast Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 889-892

  Cipollini, Paolo ^a   Cromwell, David ^a   Jones, Matthew S ^a,b   Quartly, Graham D ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MECHANICAL WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS; WAVE PROPAGATION; DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

BAROCLINIC WAVES;

ALTIMETER; ALTIMETER/INFRARED OBSERVATIONS; PLANETARY WAVES; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0031126678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00758     Document Type: Article

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