Large-scale Rossby wave in the mid-latitude South Pacific from altimetry data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-182

  Wang, L ^a   Koblinsky, C ^a   Howden, S ^a   Beckley, B ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DATA PROCESSING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ROSSBY WAVE;

WATER WAVES; MECHANICAL WAVES;

MIDLATITUDES; PHASE PROPAGATION; PHASE SPEED; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; TOPEX/POSEIDON ALTIMETRY DATA;

EID: 0031647908     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03567     Document Type: Article

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