Mechanisms of interannual steric sea level variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Piecuch, C G ^a   Ponte, R M ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BUOYANCY; ESTIMATION; WIND STRESS;

ANOMALOUS WINDS; EKMAN PUMPING; EXCHANGE PROCESS; EXTRATROPICAL LATITUDES; INTERANNUAL; LOCAL SURFACES; MIXING PROCESS; OCEAN STATE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARAMETERIZATIONS; STERIC SEA LEVEL; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WIND-DRIVEN TRANSPORT;

SEA LEVEL;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; BUOYANCY; EKMAN PUMPING; MIXING; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80051508402     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048440     Document Type: Article

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