Near 5-day nonisostatic response of the Atlantic Ocean to atmospheric surface pressure deduced from sub-surface and bottom pressure measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NONISOSTATIC OCEAN RESPONSE; ROSSBY-HAURWITZ WAVE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SIMULATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33750627964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026304     Document Type: Article

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