Low-frequency exchange of mass between ocean basins

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Chambers, Don P ^a,b   Willis, Josh K ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT DATUM; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; LOW FREQUENCY; MASS EXCHANGE; MASS LOSS; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN MODEL;

GRAVITATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION; MASS TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN BASIN; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 76749118636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005518     Document Type: Article

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