Equatorially forced intraseasonal propagations along the Peru-Chile coast and their relation with the nearshore eddy activity in 1992-2000: A modeling study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Belmadani, Ali ^a,b,c   Echevin, Vincent ^a   Dewitte, Boris ^b,d   Colas, Franois ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LEGOS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL;

CENTRAL CHILE; COASTAL FLOW; COASTAL-TRAPPED WAVE; CRITICAL LATITUDE; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EQUATORIAL FORCING; KELVIN WAVES; LINEAR THEORY; MESOSCALE EDDY; MESOSCALE EDDY ACTIVITY; MESOSCALE SIGNALS; MODELING STUDIES; NEARSHORES; OCEANIC MODEL; OPEN BOUNDARIES; OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY; WEST COAST;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EDDY COVARIANCE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; MESOSCALE EDDY; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAPPED WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CHILE; PERU;

EID: 84859904586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007848     Document Type: Article

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