Seasonal variability in the Agulhas Retroflection region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4361-4364

  Matano, R P ^a   Simionato, C G ^b   De Ruijter, W P ^c   Van Leeuween, P J ^c   Strub, P T ^a   Chelton, D B ^a   Schlax, M G ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

AGULHAS RETROFLECTION REGION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TOPEX POSEIDON ALTIMETER; AGULHAS CURRENT; ALTIMETER DATA; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; PLANETARY WAVES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL CHANGES; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONALITY;

AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033489818     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900163     Document Type: Article

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