Interannual variations of Atlantic tropical instability waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Perez, Renellys C ^a,b   Lumpkin, Rick ^b   Johns, William E ^a   Foltz, Gregory R ^b   Hormann, Verena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; WATER WAVES; WIND STRESS;

ACTIVITY-BASED; BAROTROPIC; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NEAR-SURFACE CURRENTS; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; SEA LEVEL ANOMALY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SHEAR INSTABILITY; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; ZONAL CURRENTS;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC WAVE; COUNTERCURRENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNDERCURRENT; WIND SHEAR; WIND STRESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84858427772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007584     Document Type: Article

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