Meridional component of oceanic Rossby wave propagation

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 173-193

  Glazman, Roman E ^a   Weichman, Peter B ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Rossby waves; Satellite altimetry

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ROSSBY WAVES; WAVELENGTH; WAVENUMBERS; WAVEVECTORS;

WATER WAVES;

ALTIMETRY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 17544362847     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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