On the sampling timescale required to reliably monitor interannual variability in the Antarctic circumpolar transport

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Meredith, Michael P ^a,b   Hughes, Chris W ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MOORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT (ACC); FIXED GAUGES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SAMPLING FREQUENCY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SAMPLING;

EID: 17744370929     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL002086     Document Type: Article

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