Antarctic circumpolar current transport variability during 2003-05 from GRACE

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-244

  Zlotnicki, Victor ^a   Wahr, John ^b   Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Song, Yuhe T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WIND STRESS;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT (GRACE); OCEAN MODELING; QUICK SCATTEROMETER (QUICKSCAT); SEASONAL CYCLE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; CIRCULATION MODELING; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; GRAVITY SURVEY; SEAFLOOR; WIND STRESS;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33947517872     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JPO3009.1     Document Type: Article

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