A description of the seasonal cycle of the equatorial Atlantic from altimeter data

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 477-493

  Schouten, Mathijs W ^a,b   Matano, Ricardo P ^a   Strub, Ted P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

KELVIN WAVES; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); SEASONAL CYCLE;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

ALTIMETER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONALITY; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 14944351092     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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