Reflection of intraseasonal equatorial Rossby waves at the western boundary of the Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Cravatte, Sophie ^a   Boulanger, Jean Philippe ^a   Picaut, Joël ^b  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING; WATER WAVES; WIND;

KELVIN WAVES; ROSSBY WAVES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WAVE REFLECTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 4143112335     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL019679     Document Type: Article

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