Modeling the barotropic response of the global ocean to atmospheric wind and pressure forcing - Comparisons with observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Carrère, Loren ^a   Lyard, Florent ^a  

^a LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROMETERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; WIND; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAGES;

BAROTROPIC RESPONSES; ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; FORCED VARIABILITY; GLOBAL SIMULATION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTERCOMPARISONS; MODEL CORRECTIONS; OCEANIC RESPONSE;

GEOPHYSICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROTROPIC MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0043192895     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016473     Document Type: Article

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