Skewness of sea level variability of the world's oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Thompson, Keith R ^a   Demirov, Entcho ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; UNSTEADY FLOW;

ALTIMETER; EDDY; JET; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SKEWNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 33745830428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002839     Document Type: Article

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