Nature of global large-scale sea level variability in relation to atmospheric forcing: A modeling study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C3, 1998, Pages 5493-5512

  Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Raghunath, Ramanujam ^a   Fu, Lee Lueng ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 0031780835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jc02907     Document Type: Article

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