Excitation of Earth's continuous free oscillations by atmosphere-ocean- seafloor coupling

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7008, 2004, Pages 552-556

  Rhie, Junkee ^a   Romanowics, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITY WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OSCILLATIONS; STORMS;

SEA FLOOR; STORM ENERGY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; EARTH ROTATION; OSCILLATION; SEAFLOOR; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; EARTHQUAKE; EXCITATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW; WINTER;

EID: 5044224475     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02942     Document Type: Article

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