A basin-coherent mode of sub-monthly variability in Arctic Ocean bottom pressure

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Peralta Ferriz, Cecilia ^a   Morison, James H ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Zhang, Jinlun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; MASS VARIATIONS; MEAN FLOW; MERIDIONAL WINDS; NONSTATIONARY; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH POLE; OCEAN RESPONSE; SLOPE CURRENTS; WIND FORCING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; DEEP SEA; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOW PATTERN; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEAN BASIN; SEAFLOOR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND FORCING;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960774028     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048142     Document Type: Article

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