Observed variability of the South Pacific westward sea level anomaly signal in the presence of bottom topography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Maharaj, Angela M ^a   Cipollini, Paolo ^b   Holbrook, Neil J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DATA ACQUISITION; RADON; SATELLITES; WAVE PROPAGATION; BATHYMETRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ENERGY VARIABILITY; ERS SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; RADON TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; WESTWARD PROPAGATING SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES;

SEA LEVEL;

ANOMALY; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WORLD;

BATHYMETRIC FEATURES; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; ENERGY VARIABILITY; ERS SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL RADON TRANSFORM; WESTWARD PROPAGATING SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES;

EID: 19744373873     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020966     Document Type: Article

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