Bottom pressure changes around Antarctica and wind-driven meridional flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2009, Pages

  Ponte, Rui M ^a   Quinn, Katherine J ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; DRAKE PASSAGE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC ADJUSTMENT; LEAST-SQUARES OPTIMIZATION; MASS EXCHANGE; MERIDIONAL FLOWS; NEAR-SURFACE; OCEAN MODEL; OUT OF PHASE; PRESSURE ANOMALY; PRESSURE CHANGE; RETURN FLOW; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME LAG; ZONAL WIND;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

WIND STRESS;

ANOMALY; BOTTOM PRESSURE; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OPTIMIZATION; WIND FORCING; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 70349249493     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039060     Document Type: Article

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