Long-term regional sea level changes due to variations in water mass density during the period 1981-2007

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Suzuki, Tatsuo ^a   Ishii, Masayoshi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC PRESSURE; COMBINED EFFECT; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; HIGHER MODE; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL WAVES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SALINITY FIELDS; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER MODEL; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; SUBTROPICAL MODE WATERS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; VERTICAL MODES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER MASS; WATER-MASS PROPERTIES; WIND FORCING;

SEAWATER;

AMPLITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; GYRE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRESSURE EFFECT; PYCNOCLINE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHALLOW WATER; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WATER MASS; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80655144800     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049326     Document Type: Article

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