Sea surface height signals as indicators for oceanic meridional mass transports

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-601

  Hirschi, Joël J M ^a   Killworth, Peter D ^a   Blundell, Jeffrey R ^a   Cromwell, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILS; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; RELATIVE ERRORS; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; WESTERN BOUNDARY; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ERRORS; MASS TRANSFER; OCEAN CURRENTS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MASS TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BASIN; OVERTURN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 67649989052     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3923.1     Document Type: Article

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