New altimetric estimates of mode-1 M2 internal tides in the Central North Pacific Ocean

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1669-1684

  Zhao, Zhongxiang ^a,c   Alford, Matthew H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENERGY FLUXES; INTERNAL TIDES; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVE TRAIN;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS;

TIDES;

INTERNAL TIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 67949124732     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO3922.1     Document Type: Article

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