Monitoring open-ocean deep convection from space

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Herrmann, Marine ^a   Bouffard, Jérome ^b   Béranger, Karine ^c  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC CHARACTERISTICS; DEEP CONVECTIONS; IN-SITU; INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITIES; LONG TERM EVOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRIES; SEA SURFACE ELEVATIONS; STRONG CORRELATIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; IMPROVED ALTIMETRY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE ELEVATION;

NATURAL CONVECTION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 65249088010     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036422     Document Type: Article

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