Analysis of seasonal ocean bottom pressure variability in the Gulf of Thailand from GRACE

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 76-81

  Wouters, B ^a   Chambers, D ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GRACE; Gulf of Thailand; Sea level

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; BAROCLINIC; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GULF OF THAILAND; OCEAN MODEL; PRESSURE VARIABILITY; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEASONAL CYCLE; SMALL SCALE; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; THAILAND; TIDE GAUGES; WATER MASS;

SEA LEVEL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AMPLITUDE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; GRACE; INTERNAL TIDE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONALITY; TIDE GAUGE; WATER MASS;

GULF OF THAILAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 77958082669     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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