Seasonal variations of the large-scale geostrophic flow field and eddy kinetic energy inferred from the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 tandem mission data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Scharffenberg, Martin G ^a   Stammer, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW FIELDS; KINETIC ENERGY; TIME SERIES;

ALTIMETRIC VELOCITIES; ANNUAL CHANGE; ANNUAL CYCLE; BAROTROPIC CIRCULATION; CURRENT SYSTEM; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; FLOW CHANGES; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HIGH LATITUDES; INDIAN OCEAN; JASON-1; MESOSCALE EDDY; MODULATED CURRENT; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE VELOCITY; TANDEM MISSIONS; TOPEX/POSEIDON; TRACK RESOLUTION; ZONAL FLOWS; ZONAL JETS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; FLOW FIELD; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOPEX-POSEIDON; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 77249096406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005242     Document Type: Article

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