Sea level expression of intrinsic and forced ocean variabilities at interannual time scales

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 5652-5670

  Penduff, Thierry ^a,b   Juza, Mélanie ^a   Barnier, Bernard ^a   Zika, Jan ^a   Dewar, William K ^b   Treguier, Anne Marie ^c   Molines, Jean Marc ^a   Audiffren, Nicole ^d  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Satellite   (France)

^d Centre Informatique National de L'Enseignement Supérieur   (France)

Author keywords

Eddies; Forcing; Interannual variability; Nonlinear dynamics; Oceanic variability; Sea level

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANNUAL CYCLE; EDDIES; FORCING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OCEANIC VARIABILITIES; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

SEA LEVEL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; NONLINEARITY; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIMESCALE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80052255507     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00077.1     Document Type: Article

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