Global estimates of seafloor slope from single-beam ship soundings

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Becker, Joseph J ^a   Sandwell, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BATHYMETRY; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

CLIMATE SCIENCE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEEP OCEAN; FRACTURE ZONE; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL MAP; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HIGH SLOPES; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MULTI-BEAM; OCEAN FLOOR; OCEAN MIXING; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA FLOOR; SHIP SOUNDING; SINGLE-BEAM; SONAR DATA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABYSSAL HILL; BATHYMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTURE ZONE; MIXING; SEAFLOOR; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC-ANTARCTIC RIDGE; SOUTHWEST INDIAN RIDGE;

EID: 69049087661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC003879     Document Type: Article

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