Arterial ocean circulation of the southeast Indian Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Divakaran, Prasanth ^a   Brassington, Gary B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; IN-SITU; INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT; MASS FLUX; MEAN CURRENTS; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; MEAN FLOW; NARROW BANDS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN STATE; REANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONALITY; SURFACE LAYERS; WESTWARD FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EDDY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SURFACE LAYER; TOPOGRAPHY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 78651313722     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045574     Document Type: Article

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