A record-high ocean bottom pressure in the South Pacific observed by GRACE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Boening, Carmen ^a   Lee, Tong ^a   Zlotnicki, Victor ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VORTICITY; WIND STRESS;

ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; BAROTROPIC; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DATA RECORDS; EAST PACIFIC; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME-SCALES; VORTICITY EQUATION; VORTICITY GRADIENTS; WIND STRESS CURL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AIR MASS; ANTICYCLONE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; FRICTION; GRACE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEAFLOOR; SIGNAL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VORTICITY; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 79951892972     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046013     Document Type: Article

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