Steric and mass-induced sea level variations in the Mediterranean Sea revisited

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Garcia Garcia D ^a   Chao, B F ^b   Boy, J P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL;

ANISOTROPIC FILTERS; CLIMATE SYSTEM; DATA SETS; GIBRALTAR STRAIT; GIBRALTARS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; IN-PHASE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEANIC RESPONSE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE MISSION; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SPHERICAL HARMONIC COEFFICIENT; TIME-VARIABLE GRAVITY; TOPEX/POSEIDON; TWO STAGE; WATER FLUX; WATER MASS; WIND FIELD;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ANISOTROPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; JASON-1; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOPEX-POSEIDON; WATER BUDGET;

ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SICILY; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 78650015536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005928     Document Type: Article

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