Do altimeter wavenumber spectra agree with the interior or surface quasigeostrophic theory?

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1137-1142

  Le Traon, Pierre Yves ^a   Klein, P ^a   Hua, Bach Lien ^a   Dibarboure, G ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; ENERGY REGIONS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; SPECTRAL SLOPES; WAVE-NUMBER SPECTRUM;

TURBULENCE MODELS;

ENVISAT-1; GEOSAT; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM; INDIAN OCEAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 45749147500     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JPO3806.1     Document Type: Article

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