Spectral description of oceanic near-surface variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Elipot, Shane ^a   Lumpkin, Rick ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; POLARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

ANTICYCLONIC FREQUENCY; CYCLONIC FREQUENCY; INERTIAL OSCILLATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERNAL WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; ZONAL FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 43549115253     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032874     Document Type: Article

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