A comparison of in situ bottom pressure array measurements with GRACE estimates in the Kuroshio Extension

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Park, Jae Hun ^a   Watts, D Randolph ^a   Donohue, Kathleen A ^a   Jayne, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS; PRESSURE SENSORS;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; IN-SITU; KUROSHIO EXTENSIONS; LENGTH SCALES; LOCAL VARIANCES; MESOSCALE EDDIES; MONTHLY SCALES; OCEAN BOTTOM PRESSURES; PRESSURE ARRAYS; SPATIAL SMOOTHING;

PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEAFLOOR;

KUROSHIO EXTENSION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 57049116024     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034778     Document Type: Article

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