Indian Ocean Rossby waves detected in HYCOM sea surface salinity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Heffner, David M ^a   Subrahmanyam, Bulusu ^a   Shriver, Jay F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT (SSH); SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OCEAN COLOR; RADON TRANSFORM; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 41849136154     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032760     Document Type: Article

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