Modification of inertial oscillations by the mesoscale eddy field

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Elipot, Shane ^a   Lumpkin, Rick ^b   Prieto, Germn ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

ALTIMETER DATA; BLUE SHIFT; CYCLONIC REGIONS; DATA SETS; DECAY TIME; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; GEOSTROPHIC VORTICITY; GLOBAL PATTERNS; INERTIAL FREQUENCY; INERTIAL OSCILLATION; LAPLACIANS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE EDDY FIELDS; NEAR-INERTIAL OSCILLATIONS; NEAR-SURFACE; NEGATIVE VALUES; NONZERO VALUES; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE DRIFTER; VORTICITY GRADIENTS; WIND FORCING; ZERO VALUES;

VORTICITY;

ALTIMETER; ANTICYCLONE; DATA SET; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE; TIMESCALE; VORTICITY; WIND FORCING;

EID: 77956864877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005679     Document Type: Article

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