An initial estimate of the North Atlantic steady-state geostrophic circulation from GOCE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bingham, R J ^a   Knudsen, P ^b   Andersen, O ^b   Pail, R ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

GRAVITY MODEL; INITIAL ASSESSMENT; INITIAL ESTIMATE; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; MISSION CONCEPTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEANOGRAPHIC SIGNALS; SATELLITE MISSION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

DATA SET; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD; MODEL VALIDATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 78751513181     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045633     Document Type: Article

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