Minima of interannual sea-level variability in the Indian Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 225-241

  Shankar, D ^a   Aparna, S G ^a   McCreary, J P ^b   Suresh, I ^a   Neetu, S ^a   Durand, F ^c   Shenoi, S S C ^a   Al Saafani, M A ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CNES   (France)

^d SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; EAST COAST; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; GULF OF ADEN; HIGH VARIABILITY; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUASI-STEADY; ROSSBY WAVE; SRI LANKA; TIME-SCALES; WEST COAST; WIND FORCING; WINDS BLOWING;

LANDFORMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; TIME MEASUREMENT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

COASTAL ZONES;

ALTIMETER; ANNUAL VARIATION; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND FORCING;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SRI LANKA;

EID: 77949305388     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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