Ocean response to meridional ekman transport in the Atlantic and implication for gravity missions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Ganachaud, Alexandre ^a,b   Mercier, Herlé ^a  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATERS;

BOTTOM PRESSURES; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GRAVITY MISSION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN RESPONSE; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036946238     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015291     Document Type: Article

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