Equatorial forcing of interannual Rossby waves in the eastern South Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Vega, Andres ^a   du Penhoat, Yves ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^a   Pizarro, Oscar ^b  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SATELLITES; WIND STRESS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL;

ROSSBY WAVES; BOUNDARY LINEAR MODELS; EASTERN SOUTH-PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL FORCING; HIGH RESOLUTION; LINEAR MODELING; MODEL SIMULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; WIND STRESS CURL;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL WAVES;

EL NINO; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; UPPER OCEAN;

(SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0042200502     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015886     Document Type: Article

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