A near uniform basin-wide sea level fluctuation over th Japan/East Sea: A semienclosed sea with multiple straits

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Kim, Scung Bum ^a   Fukumori, Ichiro ^b  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

MASS TRANSPORT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KOREA STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; TSUSHIMA STRAIT;

EID: 51449101044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004409     Document Type: Article

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