Equatorially trapped Rossby waves in the presence of meridionally sheared baroclinic flow in the Pacific Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 323-380

  Chelton, D B ^a   Schlax, M G ^a   Lyman, J M ^a,b   Johnson, G C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN STRUCTURES; SHEAR FLOW; WATER WAVES;

ROSSBY WAVES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; CURRENT VELOCITY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038067822     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(03)00008-9     Document Type: Review

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