Forced Rossby waves in the southern tropical Indian Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C12, 1998, Pages 27589-27602

  Masumoto, Yukio ^a,c   Meyers, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EKMAN PUMPING; ROSSBY WAVE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FORCING;

(TROPICAL SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032534165     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02546     Document Type: Article

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