Short-term transport variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current from satellite gravity observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bergmann, I ^a   Dobslaw, H ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAGES;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; ANTARCTICA; BACKGROUND MODEL; BAROTROPIC; DRAKE PASSAGE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; IN-SITU; SATELLITE GRAVITY; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIDE GAUGES; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; WEATHER EFFECT;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOTTOM PRESSURE; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; GRACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SIGNAL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WIND; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDE GAUGE; WATER MASS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84861702408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007872     Document Type: Article

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