Near-inertial oscillations interacting with mesoscale circulation in the southwestern Japan/East Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Park, Jae Hun ^a   Watts, D Randolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DATA REDUCTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SCATTERING; SENSORS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; PRESSURE SENSORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERNAL WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EAST CHINA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 22444437843     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022936     Document Type: Article

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