Antarctic circumpolar waves: An indication of ocean-atmosphere coupling in the extratropics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2585-2588

  Qiu, Bo ^a   Jin, Fei Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; WATER WAVES; WIND; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVES; COUPLED INSTABILITY THEORY; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICAL COUPLING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; CIRCUMPOLAR WAVES; EXTRATROPICS;

ANTARCTICA;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; ATMOSPHERIC MOTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; DYNAMICAL COUPLING; EXTRATROPICAL OCEAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS;

EID: 0031277971     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02694     Document Type: Article

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