Coherent sea-level fluctuations along the global continental slope

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1841, 2006, Pages 885-901

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

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental slope; Kelvin waves; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; IN-SITU DATA; INVERSE BAROMETER EFFECT; KELVIN WAVES; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; SUB-SURFACES; WAVE MODES; WAVE SPEED;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645561580     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1744     Document Type: Article

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