Buoyancy-driven interannual sea level changes in the southeast tropical Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Piecuch, Christopher G ^a   Ponte, Rui M ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; TROPICS;

ACCURATE MODELING; BUOYANCY FORCING; GENERATING MECHANISM; INTERANNUAL; MODELING STUDIES; NONLOCAL; OCEAN STATE; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; SEALEVEL CHANGE; WIND FORCING;

SEA LEVEL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; BUOYANCY; BUOYANCY FORCING; DATA SET; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FORCING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84858197169     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051130     Document Type: Article

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