Intermittence and modulation of mesoscale variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4365-4368

  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

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

FREQUENCY BAND; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; MORLET WAVELET; TOPEX POSEIDON ALTIMETRY; EAST COAST; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; MEAN FLOW; NONLINEAR PROCESS; TOPEX/POSEIDON ALTIMETRY DATA; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; MODULATION;

MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033489815     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900164     Document Type: Article

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