On long baroclinic Rossby waves in the tropical North Atlantic observed from profiling floats

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Chu, P C ^a   Ivanov, L M ^a,c   Melnichenko, O V ^a,b   Wells, N C ^d  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; PROFILER; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34548649173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003698     Document Type: Article

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