Improved global maps 54-year history of wind-work on ocean inertial motions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Alford, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

HIGH-RESOLUTION REGIONAL MODELS; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT DAMPING; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; INERTIAL MOTIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; TIME DEPENDENCE;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; OCEANIC CURRENT; WIND WAVE;

EID: 0042825373     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016614     Document Type: Article

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