Tropical Pacific baroclinic mode contribution and associated long waves for the 1994-1999 period from an assimilation experiment with altimetric data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Dewitte, Boris ^a   Illig, Séréna ^b   Parent, Laurent ^c   duPenhoat, Yves ^b   Gourdeau, Lionel ^b   Verron, Jacques ^c  

^a LEGOS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Assimilation; Boundary reflections; El Ni o; Kelvin and Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; BAROCLINIC MODE; DATA ASSIMILATION; EL NINO; KELVIN WAVE; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE DATA;

(TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0043092125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001362     Document Type: Article

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