Wind-driven and steric fluctuations of sea surface height in the southwest Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Bowen, Melissa M ^a   Sutton, Philip J H ^a   Roemmich, Dean ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SATELLITES; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

EXPENDABLE BATHYTHERMOGRAPH (XBT); SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); STERIC FLUCTUATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRY; EKMAN PUMPING; EL NINO; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; FIJI; MELANESIA; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

EID: 33845616635     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026160     Document Type: Article

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