Dynamically balanced absolute sea level of the global ocean derived from near-surface velocity observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Niiler, Pearn P ^a   Maximenko, Nikolai A ^b   McWilliams, James C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; DATA REDUCTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER SATELLITES; MOMENTUM;

CORIOLIS FORCE; EKMAN CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; GRADIENT FORCE; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; LEVEL DISTRIBUTION; MOMENTUM BALANCES; NCEP REANALYSIS; PRESSURE FIELD; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

GEOPHYSICS; SEA LEVEL;

GLOBAL OCEAN; PRESSURE FIELD; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0942267357     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018628     Document Type: Article

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