Seasonal to interannual modes of sea level variability in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 365-368

  Potemra, James T ^a   Lukas, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MECHANICAL WAVES; NICKEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF); ROSSBY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANNUAL VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGHER LATITUDES; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

EID: 0033082691     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900280     Document Type: Article

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