An altimetry-based gravest empirical mode south of Africa: 2. Dynamic nature of the Antarctic circumpolar current fronts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Swart, Sebastiaan ^a   Speich, Sabrina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; TIME SERIES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTIC POLAR FRONTS; DOMINANT MODE; DYNAMIC NATURE; FREQUENCY SIGNALS; FRONTAL ZONES; GRAVEST EMPIRICAL MODES; HEAT CONTENTS; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; OBSERVED DATA; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SALT CONTENT; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; SUBANTARCTIC ZONES; THERMOHALINE;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY; VORTICITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77953592121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005300     Document Type: Article

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