Global statistics of inertial motions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Park, Jong Jin ^a   Kim, Kuh ^a   King, Brian A ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; SURFACE WAVES;

GLOBAL STATISTICS; INERTIAL ENERGY; INERTIAL MOTIONS; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SURFACE TRAJECTORIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

INERTIA; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 25444508752     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023258     Document Type: Article

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