Subpolar ocean bottom pressure oscillation and its links to the tropical ENSO

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6091-6107

  Song, Y T ^a   Zlotnicki, V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS; WATER WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATIONS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; MODEL SIMULATION; NON BOUSSINESQ OCEAN MODELING; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WIND STRESS CURL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALTIMETER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GYRE; PRESSURE EFFECT; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEAFLOOR; WATER MASS; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 54949110258     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802175538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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