Annual sea level amphidromes in the South China Sea revealed by merged altimeter data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Caiyun ^a   Wang, Bin ^b   Chen, Ge ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DATA REDUCTION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

ALTIMETER DATA; AMPHIDROMES; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY (SLA); SOUTH CHINA SEA (SCS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETER; ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVISAT-1; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; SEA LEVEL; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

ASIA; EURASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 33845673601     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026493     Document Type: Article

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