Tropical Pacific near-surface currents estimated from altimeter, wind, and drifter data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 104, Issue C10, 1999, Pages 23313-23326

  Lagerloef, Gary S E ^a   Mitchum, Gary T ^b   Lukas, Roger B ^c   Niiler, Pearn P ^d  

^a EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; CURRENT VELOCITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE LAYER; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033569013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900197     Document Type: Article

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