An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean state estimate

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 880-899

  Mazloff, Matthew R ^a   Heimbach, Patrick ^b   Wunsch, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddies; Meridional overturning circulation; Ocean circulation; Southern Ocean; Transport

Indexed keywords

EDDIES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSPORT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MAMMALS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALTIMETRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; ENVISAT-1; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSAT; GYRE; INSTRUMENTATION; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; SAMPLER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 77955672093     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4236.1     Document Type: Article

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