Vertical motion in the upper ocean from glider and altimetry data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Ruiz, Simón ^a   Pascual, Ananda ^a   Garau, Bartolomé ^a   Pujol, Isabelle ^b   Tintoré, Joaquín ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; ALBORAN SEA; DATA SETS; DENSITY GRADIENTS; HEIGHT FIELDS; JASON-1; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC DYNAMICS; SATELLITE TRACKS; TANDEM MISSIONS; TECHNOLOGY DATA; UPPER OCEAN; VERTICAL MOTIONS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

CHLOROPHYLL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PORPHYRINS;

GLIDERS;

ALTIMETRY; CHLOROPHYLL; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER OCEAN;

EID: 70349605316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038569     Document Type: Article

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